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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Angel and his father do at the end of their talk?
(a) Have an argument.
(b) Go to church.
(c) Pray for Angel's brothers.
(d) Pray for Alec.

2. When Angel looks back and sees Tess from the top of the hill, what does he think?
(a) He thinks she is pretty.
(b) He thinks he should find his brother.
(c) He thinks he is going to be late getting home.
(d) He thinks that he has hurt her feelings.

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

4. When Tess's baby becomes ill, she is upset because ______.
(a) The child has not been baptized.
(b) She thinks she is a bad mother.
(c) She can't afford a doctor.
(d) Her father thinks it's her fault.

5. Why does Tess blame herself for the death of the horse?
(a) She caused the accident that resulted in the horse being killed.
(b) She thinks she shouldn't have taken the horse out in the dark.
(c) Her father tells her it is her fault.
(d) She thinks if she hadn't fallen asleep, she could have prevented the accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the character who picks on Tess do so?

2. What is Tess's mother's response when she hears about the sexual encounter between Tess and Alec?

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

4. Why has Tess made a pact with the other dairymaids?

5. What does Angel's father tell him on the walk out of town?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Tess and Angel manage to spend time together at Talbothays?

2. Why does Tess go to work at Talbothays, and what does she hope will happen once she is away from home?

3. What prompts Tess to leave the dance early, and what does this scene tell readers about her character?

4. Why does Tess feel threatened when she first sees Angel at Talbothays?

5. How is Mr. Durbeyfield portrayed in in the first chapter?

6. How does Tess deal with her situation in Chapter 13, when she is living at her parents' home, and is pregnant and shunned by the community?

7. What happens on the drive to Mrs. D'Uberville's home?

8. In Chapter 19, Hardy introduces another of the perceived road blocks to the relationship between Tess and Angel, from her point of view. What?

9. In Chapter 5 Tess is pressured to approach the D'Urbervilles for money. What does this scene, and her response, show about her?

10. What story does Tess hear at the farm that makes her resolve (again) not to marry Angel?

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