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

2. Why is Clym singing?
(a) He loves to sing.
(b) He is content with working as a furze-cutter.
(c) He has found a job as a singing telegram.
(d) It is Eustacia's favorite song.

3. About what does Diggory do when he talks to Mrs. Yeobright?
(a) The benefits of forgiving Clym and accepting his marriage to Eustacia.
(b) Eustacia's infidelity.
(c) Clym's disintigrating marriage to Eustacia.
(d) Forgiving Clym for the mistake he has made in marrying Eustacia.

4. Why does Clym not attend the wedding?
(a) He is out of town.
(b) He is in love with Thomasin.
(c) He does not feel well enough in spirits.
(d) He does not approve of the match.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to Eustacia?

2. What does Diggory deduce?

3. How does Mrs. Yeobright offend Eustacia.

4. What plan do Eustacia and Wildeve concoct?

5. Why has the passion between Clym and Eustacia faded?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the locals making a mattress?

2. What is Susan Nunsuch doing?

3. Why does Clym become a preacher?

4. Why is Thomasin worried about marrying Diggory? How is it resolved?

5. Why does Clym not attend the wedding?

6. Why do Mrs. Yeobright and Eustacia exchange angry words?

7. What happens in the water in the dam?

8. What intrigues Thomasin about Diggory?

9. How does Charley care for Eustacia?

10. Why does Clym write a letter to Eustacia?

(see the answer keys)

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