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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. What advice does Tess receive in response to the letter she has sent asking for advice about whether to tell Angel the truth?
(a) That she should return to her parents' home.
(b) That she should forget about marriage and concentrate on earning a living.
(c) That she should not tell Angel the whole truth.
(d) That she should tell Angel the whole truth.

2. Who does Angel meet at the D'Uberville manor house?
(a) Mercy Chant.
(b) Rhetty.
(c) Izz.
(d) Marian.

3. Alec offers Tess and her family lodgings at ____.
(a) Tantbridge.
(b) His farm.
(c) Kingsbere.
(d) The D'Urberville manor house.

4. After their marriage, Angel makes a confession about his own past, and an incident that happened in London. What does he confess?
(a) That he is color blind.
(b) That he knows about her relationship with Alec.
(c) That he seduced Rhetty before Tess came to the dairy.
(d) That he had an affair with a woman in London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Angel and Tess finally announce their betrothal, the other dairymaids are ______.

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

3. How does Tess kill Alec?

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

5. In Chapter 37, what happens during the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Angel react to Tess's confession about her past?

3. In Chapter 44, why does Tess decide to go to Angel's parents, and what happens on her journey?

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

5. In Chapter 50, how does Tess's attitude towards Alec start to change, and why?

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

7. What is the significance of the scene at Stonehenge?

8. When Alec sees Tess while he is preaching, what does he ask her to do?

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

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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