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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Susan know Michael Henchard is in Casterbridge?
(a) She asks the furmity woman.
(b) Through hearsay on the street.
(c) Michael contacts Susan first.
(d) From a friend.

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

3. What inspires Michael to finally ask Lucetta to marry him?
(a) Michael feels he needs to do right by her.
(b) He knows Farfrae is courting her.
(c) His loneliness and her disinterest.
(d) He believes it angers Elizabeth.

4. What do Susan and Michael decide about Elizabeth?
(a) Susan wants Michael to break the news to her.
(b) They intend to tell her after they are remarried.
(c) She deserves to know the truth.
(d) She should stay ignorant of her parents' past.

5. How are Susan and Elizabeth-Jane evident strangers in Casterbridge?
(a) They do not know about the bad corn sold to the bakers and millers.
(b) They do not know the whereabouts of Henchard despite his popularity.
(c) By the way they are dressed.
(d) Their accents give them away.

6. What is Abel's punishment for being chronically late?
(a) He is laid off.
(b) Lashings.
(c) Going through town without breeches.
(d) He is to sleep in Henchard's barn.

7. Where does Susan and her daughter first see Michael Henchard?
(a) At a local bakery.
(b) Just outside the King's Arms looking in.
(c) At the Three Mariners.
(d) At the King's Arms.

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

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

10. What surprising feature does Elizabeth and Susan notice about the glasses in front of the mayor?
(a) All three of sherry, port, and wine are still full.
(b) There is only one glass.
(c) There are no glasses.
(d) The ones for wine are empty.

11. Where do Susan and Elizabeth Jane go for lodgings?
(a) The Three Mariners.
(b) The mayor's mansion.
(c) The nearest farm.
(d) The King's Arms.

12. How does Henchard first learn the townspeople prefer Donald over him?
(a) A lawyer from Henchard's celebration tells him.
(b) Henchard sees it in the people's faces as they admire Donald dancing.
(c) Through a messenger boy from Durnover.
(d) From a councilman.

13. 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) The nice landlady gives the tired strangers a break.
(d) Elizabeth works for the landlady to discount the price.

14. What new machinery is introduced at the Saturday market?
(a) A combine.
(b) A tractor.
(c) A seed drill.
(d) A harvester.

15. Weydon Priors can be described as ...
(a) A bustling city.
(b) A ghost town.
(c) The next big thing.
(d) A plain farmtown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Elizabeth's manner when she first sees Farfrae in his room?

2. What do the people of Casterbridge know of the mayor's past wife?

3. Four pennies are used to keep Susan's eyes closed. What becomes of them after Martha buries them?

4. What consequence occurs when Henchard makes a bad corn deal?

5. What are Farfrae's plans when he arrives in Casterbridge?

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