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

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

3. On the first night of their marriage, Tess and Angel _____.
(a) Dance in the D'Urberville manor house.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Have a romantic dinner.
(d) Sleep in separate rooms.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tess tells Angel about her true past, how does she expect he will react?

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

3. Tess's parents ask Tess for money. What is the reason they give for needing the money?

4. How does Tess kill Alec?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 39 what does Angel tell his parents about why Tess is not with him?

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

4. Given the difficulties in their marriage, and the fact that Angel is not inclined to forgive Tess for her past, what do they decide to do? What happens after they make the decision?

5. How is Flintcomb Ash described in Chapter 42? Why does the description also fit in with Tess's attitude at this point?

6. At Flintcomb Ash, Tess encounters a number of people from her past. Who?

7. What happens when Tess and Angel are at Stongehenge?

8. In Chapter 31, Tess asks her mother's advice about what to tell Angel. What does her mother tell her?

9. In Chapter 41, Tess encounters some dying pheasants on her way to Flintcomb Ash. What is the significance of the pheasants?

10. In Chapter 34, Tess finally feels safe in telling Angel the truth. What has made her finally feel sure he will forgive her?

(see the answer keys)

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