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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomasin do during the dance?

2. What does Thomasin realize about Diggory?

3. What does Thomasin see Diggory tenderly pick up?

4. What is happening to Eustacia?

5. What does Clym become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened to Mrs. Yeobright?

2. Why does Clym not attend the wedding?

3. Why do Thomasin and Clym live in the same home but lead separate lives?

4. What is Susan Nunsuch doing?

5. Why does Clym write a letter to Eustacia?

6. How are Clym and Thomasin's suspicions similar?

7. Why is Clym concerned that Thomasin is falling in love with him?

8. How does Eustacia react when Clym confronts her?

9. What takes place near Thomasin's house?

10. How is Clym feeling after he learns of his wife's true feelings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eustacia is a very beautiful woman.

Part 1) Describe the relationship Eustacia has with men.

Part 2) What do the women think of Eustacia?

Part 3) How does her beauty affect her as a person and have a hand in her demise?

Essay Topic 2

The presentation of the character of Diggory Venn is full of ambiguity.

Part 1) What does it mean to be ambiguous?

Part 2) How is this character ambiguous?

Part 3) How does this ambiguity affect the reader's view of him? Does he grow less or more ambiguous throughout the novel? Does he stay the same?

Essay Topic 3

The heath is described almost like a character.

Part 1) Describe Egdon Heath.

Part 2) Which characters resemble the heath? How?

Part 3) Which characters are very different from the heath? How?

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