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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Michael incessantly criticizes Elizabeth for what?
(a) Her fashion sense.
(b) Her dialect.
(c) Her inability to stand up for herself.
(d) Her courtship with Farfrae.

2. What does Farfrae indirectly offer Henchard?
(a) A bribe to stay out of his life.
(b) Start-up money for a new business.
(c) A partnership.
(d) A corn-trussing job.

3. What do the boys of Casterbridge nickname Susan?
(a) The Cottage Woman.
(b) The Simpleton.
(c) The Ghost.
(d) The Plain Genteel.

4. How does Michael feel after Susan's death?
(a) Relief.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Free.
(d) Despair.

5. What are Farfrae's plans when he arrives in Casterbridge?
(a) To apply for the manager's position with the mayor.
(b) To spread the word of how lovely his country is to the world.
(c) To move on to Bristol and then to America.
(d) To sell his wheat processing invention.

Short Answer Questions

1. Newly bankrupt and now a journeyman, what is the only thing Michael looks forward to?

2. What news does Michael hear at the stone bridge?

3. How does Susan feel about the choreographed courtship?

4. What types of people linger around the brick bridge?

5. How does Elizabeth receive her new home and money?

(see the answer key)

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