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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. How does Anna feel about herself as she drives to the wedding with her father?
(a) She is embarrassed by her father's crassness.
(b) She is nervous and self-conscious.
(c) She feels ugly and inferior.
(d) She is ecstatic, feeling lovely and flamboyant.

2. What is the bitter lesson Tom learns after his son is born?
(a) Lydia does not want him ever again.
(b) He wants to be with other women.
(c) Lydia does not want him as much as he wants her.
(d) He does not want Lydia as much as he used to.

3. William comes home from the park a changed man. How does Anna react to this new side of her husband?
(a) She tells him to get out.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She ignores him completely.
(d) She is enthralled by his new strangeness.

4. What type of child is Gudrun?
(a) She is quiet, mild-mannered, but indomitable.
(b) She is active, and athletic.
(c) She is slow and meek.
(d) She is volatile and quick tempered.

5. Where does Tom take Anna as she hysterically cries for her mother?
(a) He takes her to her bed, demanding that she stop crying.
(b) He takes her in the quiet, warm barn to feed the cows.
(c) He takes her to her mother.
(d) He takes her to the kitchen for a glass of water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does William begin to hate Anna as she talks to him about the carvings in the cathedral?

2. What do Anna and William go to see that excites him so much?

3. What does William witness that torments him for the rest of his life?

4. What is Anna's initial reaction when the eleven men start singing in the garden of the cottage, outside Anna and Will's window?

5. How does Tom think his brother Alfred feels about him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What pains Tom as he stands at the altar at Anna's wedding?

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

4. What type of life do the Brangwens have on the Marsh farm?

5. Compare the way Anna and William view Lincoln Cathedral as they walk through the doors.

6. Describe the impression Anna has of Baron Skrebensky and his new wife, Millicent with regard to their relationship.

7. What piece of advice does Alfred give Tom as they walk to Anna and William's cottage?

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

9. Explain the relationship between Lydia and Tom after two years of marriage.

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

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