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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. When Tess leaves her parents house to go look for work elsewhere, what does she leave for her parents?
(a) Fifty pounds, half the money Angel gave her.
(b) A letter of apology.
(c) Twenty five pounds, half the money Angel gave her.
(d) A gift.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Alec prepares a surprise for Tess for after their marriage. What?

2. What does Angel ask of the men who have come for Tess?

3. What 'bad omen' occurs just as Angel and Tess are leaving the farm?

4. 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?

5. Alec wants to marry Tess because ____.

Short Essay Questions

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

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. What new disaster befalls the Durbeyfields in Chapter 49?

4. How does Angel react to Tess's confession about her past?

5. When Alec sees Tess while he is preaching, what does he ask her to do?

6. What happens when Tess and Angel are at Stongehenge?

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

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

9. Why does Alec ask Tess to marry him in Chapter 46?

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

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