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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Susan and Elizabeth pay for their lodgings, despite their little income?
(a) Farfrae lends them a loan.
(b) Susan and her daughter work the kitchen for each night's stay.
(c) Elizabeth works for the landlady to discount the price.
(d) The nice landlady gives the tired strangers a break.

2. What news does Michael hear at the stone bridge?
(a) Farfrae buys his personal belongings.
(b) Jopp knows about the Jersey affair.
(c) Farfrae is mayor.
(d) Farfrae is hiring corn-trussers.

3. In chapter 19, what act blatantly shows Michael's disrespect for Susan's request?
(a) He tells Farfrae and Elizabeth to discontinue their courtship.
(b) He does not help Elizabeth receive an education.
(c) He opens Susan's deathbed letter early.
(d) He marries the Jersey woman immediately after her death.

4. Michael allows Farfrae to court Elizabeth under what condition?
(a) Farfrae pays a sum.
(b) Elizabeth is to leave as soon as possible.
(c) It's not in Michael's house.
(d) Farfrae refers some customers to Henchard's business.

5. What are Farfrae's plans when he arrives in Casterbridge?
(a) To move on to Bristol and then to America.
(b) To spread the word of how lovely his country is to the world.
(c) To apply for the manager's position with the mayor.
(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. How does Elizabeth receive her new home and money?

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

4. What is Michael's reaction to what the defendant says?

5. What surprises Henchard the most about Farfrae?

(see the answer key)

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