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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom feel about his new son?

2. Whose imminent visit from Nottingham excites the 18-year-old Anna?

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

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

5. What is the question William asks himself when he and Anna are constantly tormenting one another?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Anna's inner feelings when she is sent to a young ladies school in Nottingham.

2. Describe the relationship of William and Anna as the days go on.

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

4. Describe the hatred that grows in seventeen-year-old, Anna, toward her mother.

5. What are the circumstances that bring Tom Brangwen to take over the farm at only eighteen years of age?

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

7. Describe the toast Tom gives at Anna's wedding party?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What are some of the differences between Anna's view of religion and William's religious beliefs?

2) What effect do the two different viewpoints of religion have on each of the characters?

3) Using examples from the novel, explain how they support or condemn each others religious beliefs?

Essay Topic 2

In two scenes of the novel, Ursula and Anton are making love in the moonlight.

1) How does Lawrence use images of moonlight and shadow to convey the tone of their love making?

2) How does the imagery of moonlight in the first scene in the cornstacks compare with the moonlight in the sandhills later in the novel.

3) Justify the answers with examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze the resolution of the story as it relates to each of the characters in the novel.

2) Explain the metamorphosis each of them experiences by the final chapter.

3) What major life lessons have they learned?

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