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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tess discovers that the Queen of Spades also works at the farm. What other name is she known by?
(a) Car Dench.
(b) Car Darch.
(c) Cari Darch.
(d) Carlette Dutch.

2. In Chapter 41, while Tess is looking for work, she receives a letter telling her about a possible job. Where?
(a) Flintcomb Ash.
(b) Wellbridge.
(c) Vale of Froom.
(d) Sandbourne.

3. Tess makes a request of Angel, in case something happens to her. What does she ask?
(a) She asks him to marry Liza Lu.
(b) She asks him to bury her body at sea.
(c) She asks him to marry Izz.
(d) She asks him to bury her body at Stonehenge.

4. Angel has hung ____ over the marriage bed.
(a) Mistletoe.
(b) Roses.
(c) The wedding certificate.
(d) Gauze curtains.

5. What gift does Tess receive from Angel's parents?
(a) Diamond jewelry.
(b) Sapphire earrings.
(c) Gold goblets.
(d) A horse and coach.

6. In Chapter 46, who is Tess referring to when she says "He won't hurt me, he's not in love with me."
(a) Alec.
(b) Farmer Groby.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Angel.

7. Why does Angel hit another man in Chapter 33?
(a) The man makes a pass at Tess.
(b) The man recognizes Tess and questions her virtue.
(c) The man is drunk and knocks Tess down.
(d) The man is an old enemy of Angel's father.

8. In the morning, after the scene in the graveyard, Tess and Angel travel to _____.
(a) His parents' home.
(b) Sandbourne.
(c) Talbothays.
(d) Marlott.

9. In Chapter 40, who says "nobody could love 'ee more than Tess did! . . . She would have laid down her life for 'ee."
(a) Izz.
(b) Mr. Crick.
(c) Rhetty.
(d) Mrs. Durbeyfield.

10. As the family is moving, they encounter ____ and ____.
(a) Rhetty and Marian.
(b) Izz and Rhetty.
(c) Izz and Marian.
(d) Alec and his father.

11. After Tess and Angel part, and Angel returns home, his parents are curious because Tess is not with him. Angel tells his parents that he doesn't want them to meet Tess yet because she is _____.
(a) Not educated enough yet.
(b) A liar.
(c) Pregnant.
(d) Unchaste.

12. Who discovers the murder?
(a) Mr. Brooks, the workman.
(b) Mrs. Brooks, the landlady.
(c) Mrs. Brooms, the landlady.
(d) Tess's brother.

13. On the way back to Flintcomb Ash after her journey, what does Tess overhear from a nearby church?
(a) Pheasants gasping as they die.
(b) Alec preaching.
(c) Alec giving a political speech.
(d) Nothing out of the ordinary.

14. How does Tess kill Alec?
(a) Drowns him.
(b) Hits him on the head with a heavy carving.
(c) Stabs him in the back with a carving knife.
(d) Stabs him in the heart with a carving knife.

15. While Tess is traveling through the woods on the journey she takes after learning that Angel asked someone else to go to Brazil with him, what does she find lying on the ground?
(a) A pair of boots.
(b) A key.
(c) A blood-stained piece of butcher paper.
(d) A blood-stained cloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last scene of the book, what do Angel and Liza Lu do?

2. What does Tess decide to do as a result of what she learns from the visitor to the farm?

3. When Tess tells Angel about her true past, how does she expect he will react?

4. When Angel and Tess finally announce their betrothal, the other dairymaids are ______.

5. To make herself unattractive, Tess _____.

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