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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of the causes of Henchard's bankruptcy?
(a) Henchard fires half his employees in a fury.
(b) Bad weather.
(c) A debtor cannot pay Henchard on time.
(d) Farfrae steals all his customers.

3. What happens to Michael's business?
(a) Farfrae buys Michael's business.
(b) The barns and granaries are raided by his former employees.
(c) The town burns it down.
(d) The banks close it down.

4. What makes Elizabeth wary of Henchard's hatred toward Farfrae?
(a) She is dubious of Michael's courage to revenge Farfrae.
(b) Elizabeth is afraid he hurts Lucetta to revenge Farfrae.
(c) She believes he does something dangerous to Farfrae.
(d) Elizabeth would rather have Henchard focus his hate on Lucetta.

5. What brings Michael over the edge and gets him to start drinking again?
(a) Lucetta is having a baby.
(b) Lucetta and Elizabeth ignore him completely in the market.
(c) Jopp and Farfrae are becoming friends.
(d) News that Farfrae is mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes of Weydon-Priors?

2. What are the councilmen and Farfrae's plans for Henchard?

3. Newson is ______ Henchard and his lies.

4. What misunderstood rumor reaches Henchard that makes him angry?

5. How does Lucetta discover the scandal concerns her?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Henchard goes bankrupt and feels shame, he turns to Jopp. Despite his harsh behavior towards Jopp, why does Henchard turn to him?

2. Describe the events that inhibit the law enforcers to promptly find the perpetrators of the skimmity ride.

3. In chapter 42, Michael disagrees about some of Elizabeth's decisions. How does Michael show that he is actively changing for the better?

4. Any drama in Elizabeth's life is not from her own doing. She lives to see how others bear good and bad circumstances. As Elizabeth lives her life, what overall lesson does she learn?

5. When Henchard and Lucetta meet at the Ring, Henchard is agreeable. Lucetta plans for that night to get what she wants. How does this meeting show Lucetta's power of persuasion?

6. When Michael pins Donald and is in a position to throw him down the trap door, Donald yells, "... take it, take it! Ye've wished to long enough!" What effect do these words have on Michael? If Donald does not said them, what happens?

7. Longways and a couple of other men do not like the idea behind the "skimmity ride". Longways sends Donald away to help him avoid embarrassment. Why does he do this for Farfrae but not for Lucetta?

8. Henchard reads Lucetta's letters aloud to Farfrae. Although the author is unknown to Farfrae, what do the letters say about the woman who writes them?

9. What is the significance of Psalm 109? Why does the band refuse to play such a song? What is the irony in the lyrics?

10. Lucetta has a brief encounter with Henchard on the farm. In her anger, she is unable to speak her mind right away and leaves. Angry at Henchard's approach, she writes him a letter to stop being so cruel. How does this show Lucetta's inability to think ahead and learn her mistakes?

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