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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's parents read to him?
(a) A biblical passage about virtue.
(b) A biblical passage about the imporance of marriage.
(c) A biblical passage about pre-marital sex.
(d) A biblical passage about forgiveness.

2. When Tess tells Angel about her true past, how does she expect he will react?
(a) Be angry.
(b) Say it doesn't matter.
(c) Forgive her.
(d) Divorce her.

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

4. As Angel is preparing to leave on the train, he gets a telegram telling him what?
(a) His brother Felix is marrying Mercy Chant.
(b) His brother Cuthbert is marrying the Queen of Spades.
(c) His brother Felix is marrying Mercy Chant.
(d) His brother Cuthbert is marrying Mercy Chant.

5. What do Angel and Liza Lu see from the hill behind the prison that tells them Tess is dead?
(a) A red flag above the tower.
(b) A black flag above the church.
(c) Vultures.
(d) A black flag above the tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Angel decides to go to _______.

2. Angel accompanies Tess part of the way home to Marlott. When they are parting at the crossroads near Marlott, what does Angel do?

3. In the morning, after the scene in the graveyard, Tess and Angel travel to _____.

4. After Tess and Angel part, and Angel returns home, his parents are curious because Tess is not with him. Angel tells his parents that he doesn't want them to meet Tess yet because she is _____.

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 31, Tess asks her mother's advice about what to tell Angel. What does her mother tell her?

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

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

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

5. When Tess tells Angel that she has killed Alec, what justification does she give?

6. In Chapter 44, why does Tess decide to go to Angel's parents, and what happens on her journey?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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