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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 does Tess do as a result of the altercation between Angel and the other man, in Chapter 32?
(a) Tells Angel she doesn't want him fighting on her behalf.
(b) Asks Angel to call the police and report the other man for slander.
(c) Asks Angel if they can get married sooner.
(d) Slips a letter under his door, telling him the truth.

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

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

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

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

2. What does Angel expect Tess to do when she sees him?

3. After the murder of Alec, Tess and Angel take shelter where?

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

5. While the family is camping out of doors after they've left Marlott, Alec notices that Tess is not there. He goes in search of her and finds her where?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Angel learns that Tess is at Sandbourne and has taken the name Mrs. D'Urberville, what does he think?

2. Describe the scene of Alec's murder.

3. 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?

4. What does Angel find when he goes to Marlott? What action does he take and why?

5. In Chapter 40, how is Mercy Chant described?

6. What surprise does Angel plan for their honeymoon? What does he hope to prove to Tess by this plan?

7. How is Flintcomb Ash described in Chapter 42? Why does the description also fit in with Tess's attitude at this point?

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

9. At Flintcomb Ash, Tess encounters a number of people from her past. Who?

10. In Chapter 38 when Tess arrives at her parents' house after having left Angel, what lie does she tell? Why?

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