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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 is the narrator scared will happen if he or she reveals his or her true feelings to Louise?
(a) She will be scared away.
(b) She will fear the narrator.
(c) She will benefit from not knowing.
(d) She will become too eager.

2. Which of the following best describes the narrator's sexual relationship with Jacqueline?
(a) The narrator does not believe in sexual attraction.
(b) The narrator is passionate about Jacqueline.
(c) The narrator is not sexually attracted to Jacqueline.
(d) Jacqueline does not want to have sex with the narrator.

3. What does the narrator tell Jacqueline that prompts a problem?
(a) That the narrator is having an affair with Elgin.
(b) That the narrator simply doesn't love Jacqueline anymore.
(c) The truth about the narrator's relationship with Louise.
(d) That the narrator is going back to Bathsheba.

4. According to the narrator, how many married women have affairs?
(a) Less than 10 percent of them.
(b) All of them.
(c) Half of them.
(d) A quarter of them.

5. What does the violence in the novel represent?
(a) Postmodernism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Pessimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louise refuse to accept from the narrator?

2. Whose belongings does Jacqueline destroy?

3. According to Louise, what is Elgin best suited for?

4. Who tells Elgin about Louise's affair with the narrator?

5. Why does the narrator tell so many women that he or she loves them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What part does irony play in the novel?

2. Why did the narrator choose to stay with Jacqueline for a short while?

3. According to the narrator, why do married women have affairs?

4. What is Louise's effect on the narrator?

5. What is Elgin's reaction to Louise having an affair?

6. Why is Louise still with Elgin despite his quirks?

7. Is the narrator using Jacqueline? Why or why not?

8. Why doesn't the narrator leave Jacqueline for Louise?

9. What is Bathsheba's lasting effect on the narrator?

10. Do you think that Jacqueline's character will play a larger role in the novel? Why or why not?

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