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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 does Sue buy statues of one day?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Venus and Apollo.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Venus.

2. What causes Jude to be fired from his first job as a youth?
(a) He gets into too much trouble nearly every day.
(b) He steals a customer's shoes.
(c) He is caught feeding the birds he is supposed to scare away.
(d) He plays with other kids instead of trying to beg for food and money.

3. How does Arabella first get Jude's attention?
(a) She whistles at him.
(b) She brings him water in the fields.
(c) She grabs him and starts dancing at a festival.
(d) She throws pig entrails on him.

4. What advice does Jude receive in response to his letters to the headmasters of the Christminster universities?
(a) He actually never receives any replies.
(b) That he can attend free of charge.
(c) That he not aspire to an education.
(d) That he can enroll next semester as long as he has the funds.

5. From whom does Jude finally receive grammar books?
(a) The neighborhood priest.
(b) His mother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) Mr. Phillotson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the novel first take place when it begins?

2. What wicked way does Arabella plan to make Jude marry her?

3. What can Jude see from the roof of the old barn?

4. Why does Jude go visit his aunt for the first time after he moves to Christminster?

5. Where does Jude pick up Arabella on their first real outing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jude respond when Sue writes to him, asking him to move to Melchester to be nearer to her?

2. What does Sue tell her employer about the statues?

3. What does Jude do in order to prepare to leave for Christminster for the first time?

4. What alternative way does Jude learn about for entering the church?

5. How does Jude react when Arabella tells him she is pregnant?

6. What two main things leave Jude feeling unwanted in his youth?

7. What does Sue confess to Jude about a student she once lived with?

8. Why does Sue think she has to go to London?

9. Why does Mr. Phillotson decide to leave Marygreen?

10. What does Arabella scheme in order to be able to seduce Jude for the first time?

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