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

3. What does the Scotchman do to get the mayor's attention?
(a) He never gets the mayor's attenion.
(b) He waits for the mayor to leave the party and approaches him.
(c) He sends a note via the waiter.
(d) He writes a note and throws it through the window.

4. How does Michael describe Donald's knock?
(a) Too soft.
(b) Too abrupt.
(c) Half and half, gentle and simple.
(d) Suspicous.

5. What consequence occurs when Henchard makes a bad corn deal?
(a) The bank takes possession of his belongings.
(b) The only person to loan Henchard money is Farfrae.
(c) The farmers threaten Henchard if they don't get their pay.
(d) Henchard is evicted from his home.

6. What does Elizabeth notice about the backdoor of Miss Templeman's home?
(a) The keystone is a disfigured mask.
(b) It faces the marketplace.
(c) It is hidden behind a curtain.
(d) The alley entrance is as bright as the front entrance.

7. What does Farfrae do that wins the inn patrons over?
(a) He sings a melody about his home country.
(b) He buys a round for everyone in the common room.
(c) He orates classic poetry with artistic drama.
(d) He fixes the bad wheat problem.

8. What is Michael's reaction to what the defendant says?
(a) He is silent.
(b) He dismisses her ideas as propesterous and carries on with judgment.
(c) He agrees and walks out of the courtroom.
(d) He is angry and walks out of the courtroom.

9. What keeps the Scotchman lingering about the King's Arms?
(a) The King's Arms is the only inn he finds.
(b) The music band gets him curious.
(c) A discussion about the mayor's past.
(d) A discussion on the bad wheat around town.

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

11. Although now the town beauty, what does Elizabeth feel she still lacks?
(a) Fashionable sensibility.
(b) Love.
(c) A proper lady's demeanor.
(d) A proper education.

12. What is Elizabeth's manner when she first sees Farfrae in his room?
(a) Earnest and talkative.
(b) Observant and silent.
(c) Coquettish.
(d) Indifferent.

13. What event occurs in Port-Bredy?
(a) Lucetta and Henchard marry.
(b) Farfrae has an affair with Lucetta.
(c) Lucetta sets up home away from Casterbridge.
(d) Lucetta and Donald marry.

14. How is Casterbridge best described?
(a) Old-fashioned and agricultural.
(b) An honest city.
(c) A suburb of little importance.
(d) Modern and cosmopolitan.

15. What is Lucetta's initial response when she meets Farfrae?
(a) She thinks he is smart, but not comparatively to Henchard.
(b) She hardly takes notice.
(c) She is attracted and flirts with him.
(d) She disapproves of him.