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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Tess is working in the fields at Flintcomb Ash, Alec appears and asks Tess to ____.
(a) Go to Africa with him as missionaries.
(b) Repent.
(c) Divorce Angel.
(d) Forgive him and forget what happened between them.

2. Tess makes a request of Angel, in case something happens to her. What does she ask?
(a) She asks him to marry Liza Lu.
(b) She asks him to bury her body at Stonehenge.
(c) She asks him to marry Izz.
(d) She asks him to bury her body at sea.

3. How long do Tess and Angel spend at the first place they take shelter?
(a) Five days.
(b) One night.
(c) Fifteen days.
(d) Two days.

4. 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 blood-stained cloth.
(c) A blood-stained piece of butcher paper.
(d) A key.

5. After someone close to her dies, Tess decides to move the family to ____.
(a) Stonebere.
(b) Kingsbriar.
(c) Kingstown.
(d) Kingsbere.

6. How does Angel react when Tess confesses her secret?
(a) Says the past doesn't really matter.
(b) Tells her he will forgive her but only if she obeys him.
(c) Forgives her, since her seduction by Alec was not her fault.
(d) He says she is not the person he thought he was marrying.

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

8. In Chapter 46, who is Tess referring to when she says "He won't hurt me, he's not in love with me."
(a) Alec.
(b) Angel.
(c) Farmer Groby.
(d) Abraham.

9. In Chapter 37, what happens during the night?
(a) Angel wakes Tess, wraps her in a shroud, and puts her in a coffin.
(b) Tess leaves the manor and Angel, and starts the journey to her parents' house.
(c) Angel wakes Tess and tells her he forgives her.
(d) Tess wakes Angel and begs once more for forgiveness.

10. Angel reconsiders his attitude towards Tess and his rejection of her, when ___.
(a) An Englishman he meets in Belize tells him he was wrong to abandon Tess.
(b) He hears that Tess is in contact with Alec again.
(c) An Englishman he meets in Brazil tells him he was wrong to abandon Tess.
(d) Alec writes to him and asks him to divorce Tess.

11. When Angel and Tess finally announce their betrothal, the other dairymaids are ______.
(a) Angry because Tess made an oath that she wouldn't marry.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Very happy for them.
(d) Sad, because Tess will be of a higher class than they are.

12. In the last scene of the book, what do Angel and Liza Lu do?
(a) Plan a memorial service for Tess.
(b) Walk away hand in hand.
(c) Go back to the prison to take possession of the flag.
(d) Walk away in different directions.

13. What 'bad omen' occurs just as Angel and Tess are leaving the farm?
(a) A rooster crows in the afternoon.
(b) None.
(c) There is a ghost in the carriage.
(d) One of the cows miscarries.

14. Angel wakes one morning to find that he and Tess are surrounded by ____ men.
(a) Twelve.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Twenty three.

15. Angel and Tess agree to separate. What does Angel tell Tess when they part?
(a) Not to forget him.
(b) That he will always love her.
(c) Not to follow him unless he sends for her.
(d) That he hates her now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Angel and Liza Lu see from the hill behind the prison that tells them Tess is dead?

2. Alec offers Tess and her family lodgings at ____.

3. In Chapter 36, who says "I think of people more kindly when I am away from them."

4. What does Tess do as a result of the altercation between Angel and the other man, in Chapter 32?

5. Who tells Tess about the farm at Flintcomb Ash, and that she might find work there?

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