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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. Angel returns to the D'Urberville manor house, which is located where?
(a) Marlott.
(b) Wellbridge.
(c) Emminister.
(d) Kingsbere.

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

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

4. In Chapter 41, while walking in the woods, Tess comes across _____.
(a) A flock of blackbirds.
(b) A flock of injured geese.
(c) Ravens.
(d) A flock of dying pheasants.

5. Seeing Angel's reaction to her confession, Tess offers to ____.
(a) Never speak of the matter again.
(b) Have the marriage annulled.
(c) Leave.
(d) Drown herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tess decide to do as a result of what she learns from the visitor to the farm?

2. Tess and Angel pass through Stonehenge, which is also known as _____.

3. Who does Angel meet at the D'Uberville manor house?

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

5. When Tess catches up with Angel and tells him she has killed Alec, the pair decide to _______.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who turns up in Flintcomb Ash with a message for Tess? What is the message?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

10. Several individuals are instrumental in changing Angel's attitude towards Tess during their estrangement. Describe what they do, and Angel's reaction to this.

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