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

2. What does Tom see in the loft of the barn that distresses him, making him feel like an old man?
(a) His gray haired wife, shooing the owls away
(b) His thirteen year old dog, dead in the hay
(c) Rotted timbers that need to be replaced
(d) Anna and Will in each other's arms, kissing

3. When does a darkness and dread come over Lydia's mind?
(a) At the start of the war
(b) When she marries Paul Lensky
(c) When she becomes a nurse
(d) After her two children die of diphtheria

4. 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) He does not want Lydia as much as he used to.
(d) Lydia does not want him as much as he wants her.

5. What does Brangwen find to replace the desires he has for his wife?
(a) He works day and night.
(b) He reads throughout the night.
(c) He becomes closer to Anna and drinks more.
(d) He spends all his time at the bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Tom, Alfred, Frank, the brother-in-law, William's brother, and six other men decide to do after Anna and Will leave for their cottage?

2. What is Lydia's mental state in the last few months of her pregnancy?

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

4. What angers Anna about Will's attitude at church?

5. Who is the person Anna meets that she considers a real person of consequence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Compare Tom's feeling toward his newborn son and his stepdaughter, Anna?

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

5. Explain why William feels guilty when he looks out the door after his marriage to Anna.

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

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

8. Explain William's feelings toward Anna as she discusses the wood carvings in the cathedral.

9. Describe the woman Tom Brangwen decides to marry.

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

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