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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. Who presided over the wedding of Bathsheba and Troy?

2. Where does Bathsheba go to visit her aunt for two months in Chapter 49?

3. How much money does Boldwood give to Troy to take with him, in addition to more promised in the future, if he will marry Fanny in Chapter 34?

4. Whom does Bathsheba send to town to fetch a surgeon after Troy has been injured in Chapter 54?

5. Once Boldwood has hired Gabriel to oversee his farm in addition to Bathsheba's in Chapter 49, how many acres does Gabriel oversee?

Short Essay Questions

1. What trick does Sergeant Troy play on Mr. Boldwood in Chapter 34?

2. Where does Bathsheba learn the news of Troy’s drowning in Chapter 48? How does she respond?

3. What does Bathsheba assist Gabriel in doing in Chapter 37? Why?

4. Why are Bathsheba and Troy arguing in the beginning of Chapter 39?

5. What is foreshadowed regarding the character of Mr. Boldwood in Chapter 35?

6. Why do the workers at Everdene Farm believe a horse has been stolen in Chapter 32? How do they respond?

7. What does Troy spend all of his money on in Chapter 45? Why?

8. What is Troy’s response to the coffin and its contents in Chapter 43?

9. How has the relationship between Bathsheba and Gabriel changed at the end of the novel?

10. How does Bathsheba respond when she is confronted by Gabriel in Chapter 32?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the themes of catastrophe, chance, and fate in Far from the Madding Crowd. How are these themes developed through character, setting, and imagery? What symbols relate to these themes? How do the themes overlap?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the plot structure of Far from the Madding Crowd. Are there subplots in the novel? Where in the narrative does the exposition transition to rising action? Where is the climax of the narrative? What issues are resolved in the denouement?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the social class system of Victorian England and the systems of class seen in Far from the Madding Crowd. How does social class differ in rural England from the cities? How do the characters in the story manage to change their places within this system?

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