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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tess decide to do as a result of what she learns from the visitor to the farm?
(a) Return to her parents' house and take care of her mother.
(b) Return to her parents' house and take care of her father.
(c) Return to her parents' house and borrow money to help her parents financially.
(d) Return to her parents' house and take care of Liza Lu.

2. Alec prepares a surprise for Tess for after their marriage. What?
(a) That he has bought a new house.
(b) That they will honeymoon at a property owned by the D'Urbervilles.
(c) That he has contacted the D'Urbervilles on her behalf.
(d) That they will honeymoon at his parents' house.

3. When Tess hears that Angel asked someone to accompany him to Brazil, she decides to make a journey. Where does she set off for, and why?
(a) To her parents' house to make sure they are all well.
(b) To Angel's parents' house to ask for news of him.
(c) To Angel's parents' house to ask for money.
(d) To see her parents and tell them she and Angel are separated.

4. What is Tess's punishment for the murder of Alec?
(a) She isn't punished, she escapes.
(b) Death by poison.
(c) Death by hanging.
(d) Death by firing squad.

5. Angel and Tess set their wedding date for ____.
(a) Angel's birthday.
(b) The next September.
(c) Christmas Eve.
(d) New Year's Eve.

6. Angel finally learns that Tess is where?
(a) Sandbourne.
(b) Tantridge.
(c) With his parents.
(d) Brazil, looking for him.

7. When Angel and Liza Lu leave the prison, they go up on a hill above _____.
(a) Tantridge.
(b) Wintoncester.
(c) Winston.
(d) Wiltonchester.

8. Why does Angel hit another man in Chapter 33?
(a) The man recognizes Tess and questions her virtue.
(b) The man is an old enemy of Angel's father.
(c) The man is drunk and knocks Tess down.
(d) The man makes a pass at Tess.

9. How does Marian react to the marriage?
(a) She refuses to speak to Tess.
(b) She tries to drown herself.
(c) She gets drunk.
(d) Quits her job and leaves the farm.

10. While the family is camping out of doors after they've left Marlott, Alec notices that Tess is not there. He goes in search of her and finds her where?
(a) In the church looking at the tombs of her ancestors.
(b) In the field behind the burial grounds.
(c) Looking at the carriage, to see if she can discover why it is an ill omen.
(d) In the church praying.

11. What does Alec tell Tess in Chapter 47, when she refuses him yet again?
(a) That she is his slave and always will be.
(b) That he is going to Africa to forget her.
(c) That he is her master, and always will be.
(d) That he thinks she is being foolish.

12. In Chapter 48 who arrives with news for Tess?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Liza Lu.
(c) Alec.
(d) Angel's father.

13. While Tess is traveling through the woods on the journey she takes after learning that Angel asked someone else to go to Brazil with him, what does she find lying on the ground?
(a) A pair of boots.
(b) A key.
(c) A blood-stained cloth.
(d) A blood-stained piece of butcher paper.

14. On the way back to Flintcomb Ash after her journey, what does Tess overhear from a nearby church?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) Alec giving a political speech.
(c) Alec preaching.
(d) Pheasants gasping as they die.

15. When Tess catches up with Angel and tells him she has killed Alec, the pair decide to _______.
(a) Go to Tantridge so Tess can turn herself in.
(b) Hide in the woods until the search for Tess is called off.
(c) Return to Sandbourne.
(d) Run away to Brazil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Angel and Tess agree to separate. What does Angel tell Tess when they part?

2. With what quote does Hardy end the tale?

3. Tess sends a letter to ____ asking for advice about whether she should tell Angel the truth.

4. In Chapter 40, who says "nobody could love 'ee more than Tess did! . . . She would have laid down her life for 'ee."

5. Angel's parents give him a letter from Tess. In the letter she ____.

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