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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Crick hear that the butter has a funny taste?
(a) Someone stops him at the market to tell him.
(b) He reads it in the newspaper.
(c) Rhetty tells him.
(d) He gets a letter from a customer.

2. Where do Angel's parents live?
(a) Sandbourne.
(b) Emminister.
(c) Marlott.
(d) Vale of Froom.

3. On the trip to Tantridge, Tess considers returning home. Why?
(a) Alec forces her to kiss him.
(b) She misses her family.
(c) She is afraid of meeting the D'Urbervilles.
(d) She doesn't want to work in a strange place.

4. What does Alec do in Chapter 9 that Tess doesn't like?
(a) Hides behind the curtains and spies on her.
(b) Tells his mother she is not working hard enough.
(c) Tells her she is not whistling loud enough.
(d) Ignores her at a dance.

5. What is Tess's reaction to the job offer at Tantridge?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Reluctant and uneasy.
(c) Excited.
(d) Nervous but happy.

6. What is Tess's reason for choosing to work at Talbothays?
(a) It is close to home.
(b) She wants a fresh start where no one knows about her past.
(c) She is still feeling guilty about the horse's death and wants to work in the barns.
(d) She is afraid her mother will be angry if she doesn't contribute to the family's finances.

7. In Chapter 12, what does Tess decide to do after she's been at the D'Urberville mansion for a few weeks?
(a) Return home.
(b) Marry Alec.
(c) Confront the Queen of Spades.
(d) Tell Mrs. D'Urberville what Alec has done to her.

8. Why does the character who picks on Tess do so?
(a) She thinks Tess is going to hit her.
(b) She is one of Alec's former conquests and is jealous of Tess.
(c) She doesn't like strangers and wants Tess to leave.
(d) She wants Alec to stick up for her.

9. When her parents do not return from the pub, who does Tess send after them to bring them home?
(a) Joan.
(b) Tom.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Eliza-Louisa.

10. Which character, introduced in Chapter 10, picks on Tess?
(a) The police officer.
(b) The dark-haired milkmaid.
(c) The Queen of Spades.
(d) Angel's brother.

11. Tess has made a pact with the other dairymaids. What does she swear?
(a) Not to tell anyone about Alec.
(b) That she will never lie to them.
(c) Not to marry Angel.
(d) That she will remain at Talbothays as long as they do.

12. What does Tess determine to do about the fact that the other dairymaids love Angel?
(a) Avoid him so he will spend time with the others.
(b) Ask him how he feels about them.
(c) Ask him to make a choice.
(d) Tell him they aren't good enough for him.

13. How old is Tess when she goes to Talbothays?
(a) Twenty-three.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Nineteen.

14. At dinnertime, Angel is seated at a different table than the other dairy workers because ______.
(a) He likes to read while he eats dinner.
(b) He has a contagious disease.
(c) He is of a higher class.
(d) The dairyman's wife is afraid he will corrupt the dairymaids.

15. Who eventually baptizes the child?
(a) The kind-hearted bishop.
(b) No one.
(c) The pastor.
(d) Tess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Angel and his father do at the end of their talk?

2. While the dairy maids are out in the pasture searching for noxious weeds, Tess feels faint. What does Mr. Crick tell her?

3. At Talbothays,Tess shares sleeping quarters with ____, Izz Rhuett, and Rhetty.

4. Angel's father refused to send him to college. Why?

5. In Chapter 3, Tess is left in charge of all the younger children. Where have her parents gone?

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