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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 10?
(a) "Recognition - A Timid Girl."
(b) "Mistress and Men."
(c) "Adventures by the Shore."
(d) "Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes."

2. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) "Mistress and Men."
(b) "Troubles in the Fold - A Message."
(c) "A Girl on Horseback - Conversation."
(d) "Recognition - A Timid Girl."

3. Who among the company at the tavern is described as being very shy and modest in Chapter 8?
(a) Henery Fray.
(b) Sam Samson.
(c) William Smallbury.
(d) Joseph Poorgrass.

4. Whom does Mr. Boldwood come to inquire about at Bathsheba's home in Chapter 9?
(a) Henery Fray.
(b) Joseph Poorgrass.
(c) Fanny Robin.
(d) Gabriel Oak.

5. What have the sheep broken the fence and gotten into in the beginning of Chapter 21?
(a) A copper mine.
(b) A field of onions.
(c) A field of clover.
(d) A field of poppies.

6. What is Sergeant Troy's regiment?
(a) The 1st Royal Tank Regiment.
(b) The 11th Dragoon Guards.
(c) The 1st Grenadier Guards.
(d) The 12th Royal Lancers.

7. Whom does Bathsheba send away to the lower mead so that she can speak to Gabriel alone in Chapter 20?
(a) Joseph Poorgrass.
(b) Sam Samson.
(c) Cainy Ball.
(d) William Smallbury.

8. Where does Gabriel learn Bathsheba has gone after leaving her aunt's home in Chapter 5?
(a) Norcombe.
(b) York.
(c) Weatherbury.
(d) Canterbury.

9. Who is Gabriel's junior shepherd in Weatherbury?
(a) Joseph Poorgrass.
(b) Cainy Ball.
(c) Henery Fray.
(d) Sam Samson.

10. What is the name of Gabriel's older dog in Chapter 5?
(a) Rocky.
(b) George.
(c) Sam.
(d) Shep.

11. For what reason does Bathsheba come to Gabriel's farm each day in Chapters 3 and 4?
(a) To plant flowers.
(b) To milk a cow.
(c) To collect eggs.
(d) To milk a goat.

12. Where has Sergeant Troy gone to visit friends in Chapter 30?
(a) Dublin.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Bath.

13. Who is the master-shearer when sheep-shearing begins in Chapter 22?
(a) Jan Coggan.
(b) Teddy Coggan.
(c) Joseph Poorgrass.
(d) Sam Samson.

14. What does the maiden do to revive Gabriel when she finds him passed out in his hut in Chapter 3?
(a) She kicks him.
(b) She uses smelling salts.
(c) She throws milk on him.
(d) She runs to get his wife.

15. What character from Shakespeare's Hamlet is Gabriel compared to by the narrator in Chapter 22?
(a) Claudius.
(b) Polonius.
(c) Guildenstern.
(d) Rosencrantz.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the conclusion of Chapter 24, the narrator says, "It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told [Bathsheba]" what?

2. The narrator describes Bathsheba in Chapter 19 as "An Elizabethan in brain and" whom in spirit?

3. What is the last name of Bathsheba's servant-companion Liddy?

4. About how large is the farm that Gabriel has leased in Chapter 3?

5. What is the name of the church that Fanny mistakenly goes to for her wedding in Chapter 16?

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