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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tom's reaction when Mrs. Lensky agrees to marry him?
(a) He has to sit down, sealed in oblivion.
(b) He passes out.
(c) He picks her up, dancing around the room.
(d) He nods his head and heads for home.

2. What does Will discover about himself as he kisses Anna in the moonlight?
(a) He doesn't care for Anna.
(b) He does not want Anna.
(c) He wants her desperately.
(d) He loves Anna.

3. What is Tom's reaction to Lydia after they are married and the guests leave?
(a) He is ecstatic with joy and cannot wait to hold her.
(b) He is indifferent to his new wife.
(c) He is terrified at her strangeness and cannot meet her eyes.
(d) He is rough and cruel to her.

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

5. What angers Anna about Will's attitude at church?
(a) He is overly passionate about the sermon.
(b) He does not care about mankind.
(c) He delves into the meaning of the service, ignoring her.
(d) He is too devout.

6. How does Anna react as she sits at the bar while Tom goes to sell his cow at the cattle market?
(a) She enjoys all the men, smells, and noise around her.
(b) She feels grown up and hopes Tom will stay away for a while.
(c) She feels alone and thinks Tom will never come back to get her.
(d) She likes talking to all the men at the market.

7. What is Tom's attitude toward his own life while his wife is miserable?
(a) He keeps the pain at the bottom of his heart and enjoys his life.
(b) He is always happy.
(c) He doesn't care that his wife is in misery.
(d) He is moody and miserable too.

8. When does Tom find the end of youth's passionate desire, losing his individuality?
(a) After three days of constant brandy drinking
(b) After three days of working in the fields
(c) After three days of praying
(d) After three days of silence and solitude

9. What does Alfred tell Tom every person must do?
(a) Be happy to have a wife to go through life with
(b) Go on with life by yourself
(c) Everyone needs other people
(d) No one can be happy alone.

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

11. What is the deep trouble that is between Anna and William?
(a) William dislikes Anna's father.
(b) Anna mocks William's religious beliefs.
(c) Anna complains about money.
(d) William won't let Anna go to church.

12. What is the description of the relationship between Anna and William in this chapter?
(a) It is an equal partnership.
(b) It is full of humor and longing.
(c) It is carefree and loving.
(d) It is full of love and conflict.

13. How does Tom think his brother Alfred feels about him?
(a) Favors him over Frank
(b) Despises him a little
(c) Sees him as a child
(d) Loves him

14. How does Anna feel about Tom after the baby is born?
(a) She ignores him.
(b) She wants to move away from him with her mother and the baby.
(c) She grows to love him, spending more time with him.
(d) She still resents him.

15. What do Lydia and Tom discover about each other after two years of marriage?
(a) They find they will never know one another.
(b) They realize they do not belong together.
(c) They discover they do not love one another.
(d) They find fulfillment in each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lydia emerge from her indifference, becoming a new person?

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. Why does William suffer behind his bright face?

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