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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. When Alec appears again, in Chapter 47, he blames Tess for ____.
(a) Driving him into missionary work.
(b) Causing him to become lazy.
(c) Causing a rift between him and his family.
(d) Causing him to lose his faith.

2. 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) Very happy for them.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Sad, because Tess will be of a higher class than they are.

3. 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 wakes Angel and begs once more for forgiveness.
(c) Angel wakes Tess and tells her he forgives her.
(d) Tess leaves the manor and Angel, and starts the journey to her parents' house.

4. In Chapter 38 Tess tells her mother that ______.
(a) Angel found out about Alec, but forgave her for her past.
(b) She is going to join Angel once he's found a farm for them to live on.
(c) Angel found out about Alec, but not from her.
(d) Alec contacted her, and she is going to work for his mother.

5. Tess discovers that the Queen of Spades also works at the farm. What other name is she known by?
(a) Cari Darch.
(b) Car Dench.
(c) Carlette Dutch.
(d) Car Darch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Angel ask of the men who have come for Tess?

2. What does Tess learn about the significance of the monument?

3. Alec prepares a surprise for Tess for after their marriage. What?

4. When Angel and Liza Lu leave the prison, they go up on a hill above _____.

5. What does Tess learn from the person who visits her at the farm in Chapter 48?

Short Essay Questions

1. Several individuals are instrumental in changing Angel's attitude towards Tess during their estrangement. Describe what they do, and Angel's reaction to this.

2. What surprise does Angel plan for their honeymoon? What does he hope to prove to Tess by this plan?

3. What new disaster befalls the Durbeyfields in Chapter 49?

4. When Tess tells Angel that she has killed Alec, what justification does she give?

5. In Chapter 40, how is Mercy Chant described?

6. When Angel learns that Tess is at Sandbourne and has taken the name Mrs. D'Urberville, what does he think?

7. In Chapter 38 when Tess arrives at her parents' house after having left Angel, what lie does she tell? Why?

8. Why does Alec ask Tess to marry him in Chapter 46?

9. What action do Marian and Izz take in Chapter 51 to protect the relationship between Tess and Alec, and why?

10. When Alec returns to Flintcomb Ash and asks Tess a second time to marry him, what does this scene show about his so-called religious conversion?

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