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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the town's mood when Mrs. Farfrae's condition is heard?
(a) They feel she deserves it.
(b) Content.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Apathetic.

2. What is one of Henchard's motives for his remarriage with Susan?
(a) A married man is more respectable than a bachelor.
(b) To punish himself.
(c) To find love again.
(d) He is obliged by an oath he makes nineteen years ago.

3. In chapter 24, what makes Elizabeth upset?
(a) Lucetta and Farfrae show attraction towards one another.
(b) Henchard publicly dismisses her and Miss Templeman at the market.
(c) She is envious of Miss Templeman's fashionability.
(d) Lucetta and Henchard show attraction towards one another.

4. What does Susan fear about meeting Michael Henchard?
(a) That he's drunken himself to his tomb.
(b) That he does not help despite financial success.
(c) That he considers his sale binding.
(d) That he does not remember their daughter.

5. During the ruckus of the skimmity ride, who shows the most bravery?
(a) Grower.
(b) Charl.
(c) The constables.
(d) Blowbody.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henchard warn Lucetta?

2. What does Lucetta believe is her only "practicable weapon"?

3. When Michael gets sick, who is there to nurse him to health?

4. How does Susan feel about the choreographed courtship?

5. When Henchard meets Lucetta, she reminds him of _________.

(see the answer key)

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