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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 react when Anna refuses to let Tilly put her in her nightdress?

2. What is Anna's initial reaction to her mother's marriage to Tom?

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

4. Why does Tom love to visit Anna and William?

5. What is the first woodworking gift Will gives to Anna?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Are Anna and William satisfied with their lives?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Tom's reaction when Anna hysterically screams that he is not her father?

10. Describe what becomes of Lydia's first two children while she is living in Poland with her husband Paul.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Analyze the changes in Anna Brangwen throughout the novel.

2) What fears and emotions does she experience as the story progresses?

3) How do her attitudes toward individuality, marriage and motherhood change as her character develops?

4) Cite examples of the character changes Anna goes through as her character develops.

Essay Topic 2

1) Interpret the feelings Anna and William have for each other when they begin their relationship.

2) Are their emotions authentic? Explain.

3) Are they truthful with each other? Explain.

4) Compare these emotions with how they interact later in the novel, after they are married.

5) What regrets do they have at the end of the novel with regard to their relationship?

6) How does their relationship differ from the first part of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze Ursula's coming of age throughout the novel.

2) What fears and emotions does she experience as he grows from childhood to adulthood?

3) How does her outlook on life, education, and love change as she develops from a young girl into a woman?

4) Cite examples of the character changes in Ursula throughout her life.

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