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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Paul, a young doctor, and Lydia Lensky, a nurse, represent in Poland?
(a) The joys of marriage
(b) The obedience of Polish citizens
(c) A traditional Polish couple
(d) The new movement begun in Russia

2. Why does Tom love to visit Anna and William?
(a) Because he likes to get away from home
(b) Because it keeps him from work
(c) Because they are glowing and full of life
(d) Because he misses Anna

3. How does Anna get along with other children?
(a) She loves being around other children.
(b) She gets along with everyone.
(c) She sees them as equals and has many friends.
(d) She dominates them, feeling they are inferior.

4. What are William's thoughts about the cathedral as he returns home?
(a) The cathedral doorway to eternity is false.
(b) The cathedral is his doorway to heaven.
(c) The cathedral is his reality.
(d) The cathedral is his absolute.

5. How does Lydia emerge from her indifference, becoming a new person?
(a) She decides to move back to Poland.
(b) She lives through her daughter.
(c) She meets Tom Brangwen in Cossethay.
(d) She falls in love with the vicar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will ask Mr. and Mrs. Brangwen after he and Anna kiss in the cornfield?

2. Why does the care of the farm fall upon Tom's shoulders when he is eighteen?

3. What gift does Tom give Will and Anna for their wedding?

4. What does Tom see in the loft of the barn that distresses him, making him feel like an old man?

5. What is Tom contemplating as he stands at the altar with Anna on her wedding day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Lydia rises out of her darkness and indifference to make a new life for herself.

2. Describe Anna's emotions as her parents build a life together.

3. Describe Anna's emotional state when her mother marries Tom Brangwen.

4. Explain William's relationship with Ursula after the birth of Gudrun.

5. What is it that finally allows Anna to give up her adventurous spirit and wonder of life?

6. How does Tom manage to calm Anna down when she constantly screams for her mother while Lydia is in labor?

7. Explain how the Brangwens come into more money as they live on the Marsh farm.

8. Why do eleven of the men from the wedding party go to Anna and William's cottage?

9. Explain what William asks the girl sitting next to him at the Empire, and what they do together.

10. What is William's physical and mental state after the birth of his third child?

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