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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What makes Farfrae fall out of favor with the lower class?
(a) No one respects his decision to marry Lucetta.
(b) He is changed from his singing Scotchman days to an upper class man.
(c) The lower class has a strong bond with Henchard.
(d) Farfrae bullies his journeymen at work.

4. How does Elizabeth receive her new home and money?
(a) She uses it to gain status around town.
(b) She enjoys the freedom.
(c) She feels out of place in the big house.
(d) She abides by the saying, "Take, have, and keep."

5. What types of people linger around the brick bridge?
(a) The churchgoers.
(b) The destitute.
(c) Gossiping women.
(d) The bypassers that travel through Casterbridge between work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Michael allows Farfrae to court Elizabeth under what condition?

2. Who is the first to aid Lucetta?

3. What is the people's reaction to the skiff between Michael and Donald?

4. What does Lucetta request from Henchard?

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

(see the answer key)

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