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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. Who does Tess learn is responsible for the change in Alec?
(a) The parson from Marlott.
(b) Her own father.
(c) Mercy Chant.
(d) No one, Alec has not changed.

2. On the first night of their marriage, Tess and Angel _____.
(a) Go to church.
(b) Have a romantic dinner.
(c) Dance in the D'Urberville manor house.
(d) Sleep in separate rooms.

3. Angel accompanies Tess part of the way home to Marlott. When they are parting at the crossroads near Marlott, what does Angel do?
(a) Promises he will come back for Tess once he's got his farm.
(b) Gives her money and tells her to contact him if she needs more.
(c) Gives Tess money and tells her to contact his parents if she needs more.
(d) Gives her a letter.

4. When Tess catches up with Angel and tells him she has killed Alec, the pair decide to _______.
(a) Run away to Brazil.
(b) Hide in the woods until the search for Tess is called off.
(c) Return to Sandbourne.
(d) Go to Tantridge so Tess can turn herself in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tess's parents ask Tess for money. What is the reason they give for needing the money?

2. To make herself unattractive, Tess _____.

3. What gift does Tess receive from Angel's parents?

4. What does Tess find out from Marian?

5. In Chapter 52, Angel returns to ____.

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 39 what does Angel tell his parents about why Tess is not with him?

2. Given the difficulties in their marriage, and the fact that Angel is not inclined to forgive Tess for her past, what do they decide to do? What happens after they make the decision?

3. In Chapter 50, how does Tess's attitude towards Alec start to change, and why?

4. What is the significance of the scene at Stonehenge?

5. In what way does the last scene, of Angel and Liza Lu walking away hand in hand, echo Mrs. Durbeyfield's advice to Tess when she finds out she is pregnant?

6. Describe the scene in which Angel is sleepwalking. What significance does this scene have?

7. In Chapter 41, Tess encounters some dying pheasants on her way to Flintcomb Ash. What is the significance of the pheasants?

8. What new disaster befalls the Durbeyfields in Chapter 49?

9. When Alec returns to Flintcomb Ash and asks Tess a second time to marry him, what does this scene show about his so-called religious conversion?

10. In Chapter 33, Tess assumes Angel knows about her past and forgives her. Why?

(see the answer keys)

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