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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 does Henchard ponder while at Ten Hatches Hole?
(a) How to keep Elizabeth's love.
(b) How to regain Farfrae's trust.
(c) How to revenge the plotters of the skimmity ride.
(d) Committing suicide.

2. Of the townsfolk, who approves Elizabeth's and Donald's courtship?
(a) The upper class women.
(b) The lower class women.
(c) The men of the Three Mariners.
(d) The councilmen.

3. What new information keeps Donald from leaving town?
(a) His business is profiting more than ever.
(b) Donald is offered the mayoral position.
(c) Lucetta persuades him to stay in Casterbridge.
(d) All his friends fail in their adventure abroad.

4. What surprising news do we hear about Lucetta?
(a) Lucetta is pregnant.
(b) Lucetta has more than one affair.
(c) Lucetta and Farfrae are not legally married.
(d) Lucetta leaves a fortune for Elizabeth in her will.

5. What is the motive behind the "skimmity ride"?
(a) The lower class hates Farfrae.
(b) Pure fun against the upper class.
(c) The furmity woman wants to revenge the town.
(d) Cuxsom is in love with Henchard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brings Michael over the edge and gets him to start drinking again?

2. What is Newson's reaction to Henchard's news about Elizabeth?

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

4. What makes Farfrae fall out of favor with the lower class?

5. How does Elizabeth address Henchard when she sees him on her wedding day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of all the places that Lucetta chooses to meet Michael, why at the Ring? Hardy sets it there in the novel, but Lucetta is unaware that Susan and Michael meet there before. What is the importance of the Ring in this chapter?

2. 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?

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

4. When Henchard arrives at Farfrae's home, he has every intention to read Lucetta's letters to Donald and reveal the author. However, he does not. He reads the letters, but stops himself from telling anymore. Why doesn't Henchard go through with his plan?

5. Elizabeth is an independent woman who likes to take walks along Budmouth Road to the sea. It is a secret that she does not tell Farfrae. What is this secret and why is the sea important to her?

6. During Henchard's bankruptcy hearing, Michael shows appreciation towards the creditors. Summarize Henchard's last act that evokes sympathy from his creditors.

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. 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?

9. Michael sees his effigy in the river and begins to lose any composure he has left. What is Michael thinking when he realizes what the image is?

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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