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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Angel react when Tess confesses her secret?
(a) He says she is not the person he thought he was marrying.
(b) Says the past doesn't really matter.
(c) Forgives her, since her seduction by Alec was not her fault.
(d) Tells her he will forgive her but only if she obeys him.

2. Angel receives another letter, written anonymously by whom?
(a) Rhetty and Izz.
(b) Marian and Izz.
(c) Alec.
(d) Marian and Rhetty.

3. Alec tells Tess of a bad omen. What?
(a) The legend of the cross.
(b) The D'Uberville legend of the carriage.
(c) The D'Urberville legend of the masked man.
(d) That he saw vultures flying overhead - an omen of death.

4. What is Tess's punishment for the murder of Alec?
(a) Death by firing squad.
(b) She isn't punished, she escapes.
(c) Death by hanging.
(d) Death by poison.

5. Who does Angel meet at the D'Uberville manor house?
(a) Rhetty.
(b) Izz.
(c) Marian.
(d) Mercy Chant.

6. What do Angel and Liza Lu see from the hill behind the prison that tells them Tess is dead?
(a) A black flag above the church.
(b) Vultures.
(c) A black flag above the tower.
(d) A red flag above the tower.

7. Angel reconsiders his attitude towards Tess and his rejection of her, when ___.
(a) He hears that Tess is in contact with Alec again.
(b) An Englishman he meets in Belize tells him he was wrong to abandon Tess.
(c) Alec writes to him and asks him to divorce Tess.
(d) An Englishman he meets in Brazil tells him he was wrong to abandon Tess.

8. What does Tess learn from the person who visits her at the farm in Chapter 48?
(a) That her mother is dead.
(b) That her mother is dying.
(c) That her father has been imprisoned for drunkenness.
(d) That her father is dying.

9. How does Marian react to the marriage?
(a) Quits her job and leaves the farm.
(b) She gets drunk.
(c) She refuses to speak to Tess.
(d) She tries to drown herself.

10. When Angel and Tess finally announce their betrothal, the other dairymaids are ______.
(a) Very happy for them.
(b) Angry because Tess made an oath that she wouldn't marry.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Sad, because Tess will be of a higher class than they are.

11. When Tess tells Alec of Angel's visit, how does he react?
(a) He slaps her.
(b) He mocks her.
(c) He feels sorry for her.
(d) He tells her it's for the best that Angel is out of her life.

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

13. Alec wants to marry Tess because ____.
(a) He wants to right the wrong he did.
(b) He wants to convert her to Christianity.
(c) He wants to protect her from Angel.
(d) He thinks she loves him.

14. 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.

15. Angel returns to the D'Urberville manor house, which is located where?
(a) Emminister.
(b) Kingsbere.
(c) Wellbridge.
(d) Marlott.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 41, while walking in the woods, Tess comes across _____.

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

3. Angel decides to go to _______.

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

5. What does Tess do as a result of the altercation between Angel and the other man, in Chapter 32?

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