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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Clym feel about his mother's death?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Heartbroken and partly to blame.
(c) Sad and unsure about the future.
(d) Guilty.

2. Why is Thomasin now attracted to Diggory?
(a) Her true love is dead.
(b) He has grown nicer over the years.
(c) He is no longer stained red.
(d) She realizes she always loved him.

3. When are Eustacia and Wildeve's feeling rekindled?
(a) While watching others dance.
(b) As they dance.
(c) On the walk home after the dance.
(d) At the beverage table.

4. How many years later is it when Diggory Venn comes to visit?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Seven years.

5. Who does Clym find waiting?
(a) Diggory.
(b) Damon.
(c) Eustacia.
(d) Captain Vye.

6. What is Mrs. Yeobright resolved to do?
(a) Reconcile with her son and daughter-in-law.
(b) Tell her son how she feels.
(c) Tell Thomasin to leave Wildeve.
(d) Break up her son and Eustacia's marriage.

7. What does Clym do with his new career?
(a) Educate young children.
(b) Move to Rome.
(c) Lecture about moral matters.
(d) Manage the town.

8. What is taking place at the same time Diggory is talking to Mrs. Yeobright?
(a) Clym and Eustacia are discussing their marriage.
(b) Thomasin is talking to Clym about reconciling with his mother.
(c) Clym is telling Eustacia about wanting to reconcile with his mother.
(d) Clym is telling Eustacia how upset he is with his mother.

9. What happens when Thomasin visits Clym?
(a) She says how much she detests Eustacia.
(b) She gives him his portion of the inheritance.
(c) She finds out Eustacia is leaving him.
(d) She tells him she loves him.

10. What does Thomasin wistfully ask Diggory?
(a) Why she married Damon.
(b) What she should do about her husband.
(c) If he knows a way to keep her husband home in the evenings.
(d) If he still loves her.

11. For whom is Thomasin caretaking?
(a) Her nephew.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her son.
(d) Eustacia's grandfather.

12. Who do Eustacia and Wildeve see as they walk back to the heath?
(a) Susan and Johnny Nonsuch.
(b) Sam and Humphrey.
(c) Diggory Venn and Clym.
(d) Thomasin and Mrs. Yeobright.

13. Why is Diggory's skin no longer red?
(a) He has left the reddleman business.
(b) He has found a strong soap.
(c) The dye is now clear.
(d) The red dye no longer stains.

14. Why does Clym ask Thomasin to marry him?
(a) He is in love with her.
(b) Out of a sense of duty.
(c) It is what Eustacia would have wanted.
(d) Thomasin loves him.

15. To what is Eustacia referring when she says Damon is not a "great" enough man?
(a) He is not wealthy enough for her.
(b) As Thomasin's husband.
(c) He is unkind and untrustworthy.
(d) For whom to break her vows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Clym waiting?

2. How does Venn try to scare Damon?

3. Why is Clym unable to continue his studies temporarily?

4. Where do the newlyweds go?

5. On what are the locals working?

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