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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tess hears that Angel asked someone to accompany him to Brazil, she decides to make a journey. Where does she set off for, and why?
(a) To her parents' house to make sure they are all well.
(b) To Angel's parents' house to ask for news of him.
(c) To Angel's parents' house to ask for money.
(d) To see her parents and tell them she and Angel are separated.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 41, while walking in the woods, Tess comes across _____.
(a) A flock of blackbirds.
(b) A flock of dying pheasants.
(c) A flock of injured geese.
(d) Ravens.

6. Angel finally learns that Tess is where?
(a) Brazil, looking for him.
(b) Sandbourne.
(c) Tantridge.
(d) With his parents.

7. What does Angel buy for Tess, in Chapter 32?
(a) Clothes for the wedding.
(b) A new house.
(c) Trinkets.
(d) Nothing.

8. What does Tess decide to do as a result of what she learns from the visitor to the farm?
(a) Return to her parents' house and take care of her mother.
(b) Return to her parents' house and borrow money to help her parents financially.
(c) Return to her parents' house and take care of Liza Lu.
(d) Return to her parents' house and take care of her father.

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

10. To make herself unattractive, Tess _____.
(a) Wears old clothes.
(b) Cuts off her eyebrows and pretends she has a toothache.
(c) Cuts her hair and wears old clothes.
(d) Cuts off her eyebrows and her hair.

11. After the murder of Alec, Tess and Angel take shelter where?
(a) A vacant church.
(b) Under a bridge.
(c) A vacant cabin.
(d) A vacant manor.

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

13. Angel decides to go to _______.
(a) British West Indies.
(b) Bahamas.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Belize.

14. 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 blood-stained piece of butcher paper.
(c) A key.
(d) A blood-stained cloth.

15. In Chapter 51 Tess arrives at the new lodgings to find that ___.
(a) They are not large enough for everyone.
(b) They have been rented to another family.
(c) They are more expensive than she thought.
(d) They are rat-infested.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Angel's parents give him a letter from Tess. In the letter she ____.

3. After Angel returns from Brazil, he leaves his parents' home and sets out to look for Tess. Where does he go first to look for her?

4. While Tess is working in the fields at Flintcomb Ash, Alec appears and asks Tess to ____.

5. On the first night of their marriage, Tess and Angel _____.

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