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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 47, Tess tries once more to get Alec to leave her alone. What does she do?
2. When Angel and Liza Lu leave the prison, they go up on a hill above _____.
3. 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?
4. Alec prepares a surprise for Tess for after their marriage. What?
5. When Alec appears again, in Chapter 47, he blames Tess for ____.
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What new disaster befalls the Durbeyfields in Chapter 49?
3. At Flintcomb Ash, Tess encounters a number of people from her past. Who?
4. When Tess tells Angel that she has killed Alec, what justification does she give?
5. Describe the scene on the day of Tess's death.
6. Describe the scene in which Angel is sleepwalking. What significance does this scene have?
7. When Angel learns that Tess is at Sandbourne and has taken the name Mrs. D'Urberville, what does he think?
8. In Chapter 44, why does Tess decide to go to Angel's parents, and what happens on her journey?
9. What happens when Tess and Angel are at Stongehenge?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Tess tells Alec about her visit from Angel, he is both angry and mocking. Do you think his reaction is justified?
Essay Topic 2
Tess names her baby Sorrow. What is the significance of this name? And what is implied by the scene in which Tess buries Sorrow in a corner of the churchyard reserved for the 'ungodly.' Is this the point at which Tess loses her religious faith?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the novel, Tess is constantly pursued (by Angel, by Alec, by poverty, by bad luck, and perhaps by fate). Hardy makes this theme clear using a number of symbolic references, such as the scene with the dying pheasants, and reference to the place where Alec seduced her as "The Chase". Discuss at least three such symbols and say how they add to the overall atmosphere of oppression that surrounds Tess as 'the hunted' character.
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