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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 courtship with Farfrae.
(b) Her fashion sense.
(c) Her dialect.
(d) Her inability to stand up for herself.

2. What causes Michael to be bitter towards Elizabeth?
(a) She is in courtship with Farfrae.
(b) Elizabeth brings his status down in town.
(c) She spends too much of his hard earned money.
(d) He discovers she is not his real daughter.

3. What is Michael's reaction to what the defendant says?
(a) He dismisses her ideas as propesterous and carries on with judgment.
(b) He is angry and walks out of the courtroom.
(c) He agrees and walks out of the courtroom.
(d) He is silent.

4. What does Farfrae do that wins the inn patrons over?
(a) He orates classic poetry with artistic drama.
(b) He fixes the bad wheat problem.
(c) He sings a melody about his home country.
(d) He buys a round for everyone in the common room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter 19, what act blatantly shows Michael's disrespect for Susan's request?

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

3. How does Susan react when Michael admits his guilt for a bad deed he does years before?

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

5. What is one of Henchard's motives for his remarriage with Susan?

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