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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. Why is the skimmity ride important to Jopp?
(a) Jopp uses it to blackmail Farfrae.
(b) Jopp uses it to blackmail Lucetta.
(c) The scandal also serves as retaliation.
(d) Jopp feels like a leader for once.

2. When Michael gets sick, who is there to nurse him to health?
(a) No one.
(b) Lucetta.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Abel Whittle.

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

4. Jopp feels _______ about Lucetta's condition.
(a) indifferent.
(b) anxious.
(c) successful.
(d) satsified.

5. What causes Michael's death?
(a) A bloody drunken fight.
(b) Too weak to eat.
(c) A wagon accident.
(d) A heart attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Farfrae often court Elizabeth?

2. What does Henchard buy for Elizabeth?

3. How does Lucetta discover the scandal concerns her?

4. What does Farfrae decide to do to avenge his wife's death?

5. The patrons of Peter's Finger feels what with the upper class?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Lucetta has a brief encounter with Henchard on the farm. In her anger, she is unable to speak her mind right away and leaves. Angry at Henchard's approach, she writes him a letter to stop being so cruel. How does this show Lucetta's inability to think ahead and learn her mistakes?

3. 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?

4. After a visit to Ten Hatches Hole, Michael goes back to see Elizabeth. Henchard refers to himself as unlearned and ignorant. How does this show how Michael thinks differently of Elizabeth, even though he speaks about himself?

5. Donald's singing affects Henchard before he is able to challenge the Scotchman. Why does a song affect him? What is the importance of the particular song?

6. 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?

7. Any drama in Elizabeth's life is not from her own doing. She lives to see how others bear good and bad circumstances. As Elizabeth lives her life, what overall lesson does she learn?

8. After Lucetta's death, Donald and Elizabeth are seen in courtship. Compare and contrast this courtship to their first one before Lucetta came to Casterbridge.

9. 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?

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

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