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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Tess's punishment for the murder of Alec?
2. What does Angel expect Tess to do when she sees him?
3. How does Angel react when Tess confesses her secret?
4. As Angel is preparing to leave on the train, he gets a telegram telling him what?
5. After the murder of Alec, Tess and Angel take shelter where?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the scene on the day of Tess's death.
2. Who turns up in Flintcomb Ash with a message for Tess? What is the message?
3. Why does Alec ask Tess to marry him in Chapter 46?
4. When Alec sees Tess while he is preaching, what does he ask her to do?
5. In Chapter 50, how does Tess's attitude towards Alec start to change, and why?
6. In what way does the last scene, of Angel and Liza Lu walking away hand in hand, echo Mrs. Durbeyfield's advice to Tess when she finds out she is pregnant?
7. What does Angel find when he goes to Marlott? What action does he take and why?
8. In Chapter 34, Tess finally feels safe in telling Angel the truth. What has made her finally feel sure he will forgive her?
9. 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?
10. How is Flintcomb Ash described in Chapter 42? Why does the description also fit in with Tess's attitude at this point?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Some people read Hardy's work as a commentary on forms of oppression (religious, political, racial, social). Discuss, using at least three different examples from the text to back up your opinion.
Essay Topic 2
Tess names her baby Sorrow. What is the significance of this name? And what is implied by the scene in which Tess buries Sorrow in a corner of the churchyard reserved for the 'ungodly.' Is this the point at which Tess loses her religious faith?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 51, Tess contemplates the burial monuments of her ancestors, saying, "Why am I on the wrong side?" Is death the only realistic fate for Tess from here on? Or is there still a way that she could escape her 'fate'?
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