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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 cause of Lucetta's death?
(a) Donald leaving her.
(b) Seizures caused by the scandalous skimmity ride.
(c) An accident during the skimmity ride.
(d) Bear of guilt.

2. Who meets Farfrae, but unsuccessfully brings him home to Lucetta?
(a) Henchard.
(b) Whittle.
(c) One of Farfrae's employees.
(d) The doctor.

3. Michael is paranoid that Donald ___________.
(a) Turns Elizabeth against him.
(b) Discovers Henchard's latest secret.
(c) Dismisses him from employment.
(d) Changes his mind about their reconciled friendship.

4. When Michael gets sick, who is there to nurse him to health?
(a) No one.
(b) Lucetta.
(c) Abel Whittle.
(d) Elizabeth.

5. Newson confesses he fakes his death. Why does Newson fake it?
(a) Newson has an affair and feels too ashamed to return home.
(b) Newson feels too trapped with a wife and daughter.
(c) To teach Susan to be more independent.
(d) In order to let Susan leave honorably.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jopp ask of Lucetta?

2. What is the town's mood when Mrs. Farfrae's condition is heard?

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

4. What does Elizabeth think she sees in the loft?

5. What section of town does Michael now live?

Short Essay Questions

1. After a visit to Ten Hatches Hole, Michael goes back to see Elizabeth. Henchard refers to himself as unlearned and ignorant. How does this show how Michael thinks differently of Elizabeth, even though he speaks about himself?

2. In Lucetta's illness and death, how does Lucetta manage to manipulate the people around her? How does her reaction to the effigy, intentional or not, play her "practicable weapon"?

3. Michael decides to buy a wedding present for Elizabeth. Without much money, he settles on a caged goldfinch. What is the significance of the goldfinch? What does it symbolize?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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. 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?

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. Henchard worries that Newson returns and unfolds the truth to Elizabeth. Yet, when Elizabeth goes to Michael for advice and meeting an anonymous person, Henchard tells her to go. Henchard is aware this person is Newson, so why does Henchard not tell her it is dangerous or give some excuse? Why does he lead her to the truth despite knowing he loses her?

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