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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. The patrons of Peter's Finger feels what with the upper class?
(a) In union.
(b) Dependent.
(c) Resentment.
(d) A sad gap.

2. What becomes of Weydon-Priors?
(a) It is bare.
(b) It is usurped by a large city.
(c) It revives when a neighboring town grows nearby.
(d) It is unchanged from twenty five years ago.

3. Newson confesses he fakes his death. Why does Newson fake it?
(a) Newson feels too trapped with a wife and daughter.
(b) Newson has an affair and feels too ashamed to return home.
(c) In order to let Susan leave honorably.
(d) To teach Susan to be more independent.

4. What does Michael do with his last possessions?
(a) He sells his watch and gives his last pocket money to a small creditor.
(b) He sets them in front of his old house, unable to leave.
(c) He gives them to Elizabeth and asks for forgiveness.
(d) He sells his last possessions to pay his new landlord rent.

5. What brings Michael over the edge and gets him to start drinking again?
(a) Jopp and Farfrae are becoming friends.
(b) Lucetta is having a baby.
(c) Lucetta and Elizabeth ignore him completely in the market.
(d) News that Farfrae is mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Michael prepare for his fight with Donald?

2. How does Lucetta discover the scandal concerns her?

3. What makes Elizabeth wary of Henchard's hatred toward Farfrae?

4. When Henchard meets Lucetta, she reminds him of _________.

5. What does Elizabeth do with Henchard's gift?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Henchard arrives at Farfrae's home, he has every intention to read Lucetta's letters to Donald and reveal the author. However, he does not. He reads the letters, but stops himself from telling anymore. Why doesn't Henchard go through with his plan?

2. When Henchard goes bankrupt and feels shame, he turns to Jopp. Despite his harsh behavior towards Jopp, why does Henchard turn to him?

3. Of all the places that Lucetta chooses to meet Michael, why at the Ring? Hardy sets it there in the novel, but Lucetta is unaware that Susan and Michael meet there before. What is the importance of the Ring in this chapter?

4. In the midst of Lucetta's illness, Michael begins to see Elizabeth in a whole new way? What sparks this feeling?

5. What is the significance of Psalm 109? Why does the band refuse to play such a song? What is the irony in the lyrics?

6. Henchard reads Lucetta's letters aloud to Farfrae. Although the author is unknown to Farfrae, what do the letters say about the woman who writes them?

7. Michael decides to buy a wedding present for Elizabeth. Without much money, he settles on a caged goldfinch. What is the significance of the goldfinch? What does it symbolize?

8. In Lucetta's illness and death, how does Lucetta manage to manipulate the people around her? How does her reaction to the effigy, intentional or not, play her "practicable weapon"?

9. Michael sees his effigy in the river and begins to lose any composure he has left. What is Michael thinking when he realizes what the image is?

10. In chapter 42, Michael disagrees about some of Elizabeth's decisions. How does Michael show that he is actively changing for the better?

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