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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Susan feel about the choreographed courtship?
(a) Dubious of the plan's success.
(b) Dishonest to Elizabeth.
(c) Awkward.
(d) She revels in the attention.

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

3. What does Farfrae and Susan observe about Henchard?
(a) Henchard is paranoid.
(b) Henchard has sudden moods.
(c) Henchard exudes charity to all around him.
(d) Henchard is a conman.

4. What does Henchard suggest to announce in the paper?
(a) Elizabeth Jane Newson is now Elizabeth Jane Henchard.
(b) The smooth workings of the business with Farfrae as manager.
(c) He and Susan's marriage place and date.
(d) The corn from Durnover are ready for market.

5. What age is Elizabeth Jane when she and her mother search for Michael Henchard?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Seventeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Susan uncomfortable about her relationship with Newson?

2. How does Henchard's demeanor toward Elizabeth change when he hears Susan is alive?

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

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

5. What do the boys of Casterbridge nickname Susan?

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