MCQs- Tess of the D'urbervilles
SET-1
1.Who is the protagonist of Tess of the D'urbervilles?
A. Alec D'Urberville
B. Angel Clare
C. Tess Durbeyfield
D. Joan Durbeyfield
Answer: C. Tess Durbeyfield
2.What is Alec D'Urberville's occupation?
A. Farmer
B. Preacher
C. Nobleman
D. Merchant
Answer: A. Farmer
3.What is the cause of Tess's downfall?
A. Her own sinful actions
B. Her family's poverty
C. The cruelty of men
D. Fate
Answer: A. Her own sinful actions
4.Who is Angel Clare?
A. Tess's employer
B. Tess's husband
C. Alec D'Urberville's cousin
D. All of the above
Answer: B. Tess's husband
5.What is the name of the village where Tess's family lives?
A. Marlott
B. Casterbridge
C. Trantridge
D. Weatherbury
Answer: A. Marlott
6.What is the name of the dairy farm where Tess works?
A. Talbothays
B. Flintcomb-Ash
C. Trantridge
D. The Slopes
Answer: A. Talbothays
7.Who does Tess kill?
A. Alec D'Urberville
B. Angel Clare
C. Her father
D. Her baby
Answer: A. Alec D'Urberville
8.What is the subtitle of Tess of the D'Urbervilles?
A. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
B. A Tragic Tale of Love and Betrayal
C. The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Heroine
D. None of the above
Answer: A. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
9.What is Tess's relationship with Alec D'Urberville?
A. They are childhood friends.
B. They are enemies.
C. He is her employer and seducer.
D. They are distant relatives.
Answer: C. He is her employer and seducer.
10.What is Angel Clare's occupation?
A. Farmer
B. Preacher
C. Nobleman
D. Merchant
Answer: B. Preacher
11.What is the name of Tess's baby?
A. Sorrow
B. Hope
C. Joy
D. Faith
Answer: A. Sorrow
12.Who is the author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles?
A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Emily Bronte
D. Thomas Hardy
Answer: D. Thomas Hardy
13.What is the name of the young man who seduces Tess before she
meets Alec D'Urberville?
A. Alec Stoke-d'Urberville
B. Angel Clare
C. Mr. Crick
D. Alec d'Urberville
Answer: D. Alec d'Urberville
14.Which character utters the famous line, "Justice was done,
and the President of the Immortals (in the Aeschylean phrase) had ended his
sport with Tess"?
A. Angel Clare
B. Alec D'Urberville
C. Thomas Hardy (the narrator)
D. Tess Durbeyfield
Answer: C. Thomas Hardy (the narrator)
15.What is the name of the village where Tess's family lives at
the beginning of the novel?
A. Marlott
B. Trantridge
C. Sandbourne
D. Casterbridge
Answer: A. Marlott
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16.Which character is responsible for Tess's downfall?
A. Alec D'Urberville
B. Angel Clare
C. Mrs. Durbeyfield
D. Tess herself
Answer: A. Alec D'Urberville
17.Which of the Durbeyfields finally claims the family from
Rolliver's?
A. Joan
B. Abraham
C. Tess
D. John
Answer: C. Tess
18.What is the name of Tess's illegitimate child?
A. Mourning
B. Sorrow
C. Abraham
D. Pity
Answer: B. Sorrow
19.At what location does Alec seduce Tess?
A. Marlott
B. The Chase
C. Trantridge Cross
D. Chasebourough
Answer: B. The Chase
20. According to Joan Durbeyfield, what is the 'trump card' that
Tess has?
A. Her education
B. Her face
C. Her innocence
D. The d'Urberville name
Answer: B. Her face
21. What is the name of Tess’s child?
A. Angel
B. Sorrow
C. Joy
D. Hope
Answer: Sorrow
22. What does Tess do when her baby dies?
A. Leaves home
B. Runs away
C. Baptizes and buries him herself
D. Curses Alec
Answer: Baptizes and buries him herself
23. Why does Tess go to Talbothays Dairy?
A. To escape Alec
B. To find Angel
C. To earn money for her family
D. To learn farming
Answer: To earn money for her family
24. Who are Tess’s closest companions at Talbothays?
A. Her sisters
B. Three milkmaids
C. Two priests
D. Her aunts
Answer: Three milkmaids
25. What does Angel do when Tess refuses his initial proposal?
A. Leaves the dairy
B. Proposes again later
C. Marries another woman
D. Gets angry
Answer: Proposes again later
26. On Tess and Angel’s wedding night, what does Angel confess?
A. He has no money
B. He had an affair in London
C. He doesn't love her
D. He’s already married
Answer: He had an affair in London
27. After Angel leaves Tess, what does she do for work?
A. Becomes a schoolteacher
B. Works in the fields
C. Returns to Alec
D. Moves to America
Answer: Works in the fields
28. Why does Tess eventually go back to Alec?
A. She loves him
B. She needs money for her family
C. She wants revenge
D. Angel tells her to
Answer: She needs money for her family
29. How does Tess react when Angel returns from Brazil?
A. She is overjoyed
B. She ignores him
C. She kills Alec and runs away with Angel
D. She refuses to speak to him
Answer: She kills Alec and runs away with Angel
30.What is Tess doing when Alec first takes advantage of her sexually?
A. Sleeping
B. Praying
C. Imagining Angel
D. Drinking
Answer: Sleeping
31. What does the sign painter stop to paint when he’s talking
with Tess?
A. THY DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT
B. REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED
C. GOD HEARS ALL PRAYERS
D. THIS TOO SHALL PASS
Answer: THY DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT
32. When Alec is driving recklessly, he agrees to slow down if
Tess will ___.
A. Marry him
B. Have sex with him
C. Hold him
D. Kiss him
Answer: Kiss him
33. Who agrees to help Tess learn how to blow whistles?
A. Mrs. d’Urberville
B. Izz
C. Alec
D. Retty
Answer: Alec
34. When Tess’s friends get drunk, why are they irritated with
Tess?
A. She’s the richest
B. Her irritating voice
C. Alec gives her attention
D. Her poor farm skills
Answer: Alec gives her attention
35.What does Alec buy for Tess’s father in order to win Tess’s
favor?
A. A new suit
B. A new horse
C. A new cart
D A new house
Answer: A new horse
36. What motivates Tess to speak to Angel about her past?
A. Tess realizes that Angel has not read the letter she has
written him.
B. Angel admits his sins to Tess.
C. A man from Trantridge recognizes her.
D. Joan Durbeyfield advises Tess to tell him.
Answer: B. Angel admits his sins to Tess.
37. Which of the following does Angel not do while he is
sleepwalking?
A. Places Tess in a coffin
B. Claims that he is dead.
C. Kisses Tess
D. Carries Tess across a river
Answer: B. Claims that he is dead.
38. What is the subject of the Biblical verse that the Clares read
with Angel?
A. Adultery
B. Praise for a virtuous wife
C. Dedication to higher ideals
D. Forgiveness
Answer: B. Praise for a virtuous wife
39.Whom does Angel invite to accompany him to Brazil?
A. Marian
B. Izz Huett
C. Retty Priddle
D. Mercy Chant
Answer: B. Izz Huett
40. Which of the following characters attempts suicide after Angel
leaves Talbothays to be married?
A. Mercy Chant
B. Marian
C. Izzy Huett
D. Retty Priddle
Answer: D. Retty Priddle
41. Which character calls Tess "a damned witch of
Babylon"?
A. Cuthbert Clare
B. Farmer Groby
C. Angel Clare
D. Alec d'Urberville
Answer: D. Alec d'Urberville
42. Why does Tess stop attending church after she becomes
pregnant?
A. She hears people whispering
B. She is too ill
C. The parson requests it
D. Alec won’t let her
Answer: A. She hears people whispering
43. While she is pregnant Tess eventually only goes out ___.
A. With a group
B. After dark
C. In disguise
D. On Sundays
Answer: B. After dark
44. Where does Tess lay her dead baby to rest?
A. Manger in the barn
B. Bed made from rags
C. Beneath an oak tree
D. Corner of the churchyard
Answer: D. Corner of the churchyard
45. When Tess realizes that she can never be happy at Marlott,
what job does she take at Talbothays Dairy?
A. Chamber maid
B. Cook
C. Milkmaid
D. Barn sweep
Answer: C. Milkmaid
46. Who is the master dairyman at Talbothays?
A. Alec d’Urberville
B. Reverend Cuthbert
C. Angel Clare
D. Richard Crick
Answer: D. Richard Crick
47. Who was Angel involved with before coming to Talbothays?
A. An underage girl
B. A foreign woman
C. An older woman
D. A prostitute
Answer: C. An older woman
48. Why does Tess initially try to stay away from Angel?
A. She’s not attracted
B. Embarrassment about her pregnancy
C. He’s highborn
D. Fear of being rejected
Answer: B. Embarrassment about her pregnancy
49. Angel breaks the rules by arranging for Tess to have her
favorite ___ to work with.
A. Cows
B. Coworkers
C. Tools
D. Horses
Answer: A. Cows
50. What instrument does Angel play?
A. Fiddle
B. Harp
C. Flute
D. Piano
Answer: B. Harp
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51. What is interpreted as a sign that two people on the farm are
in love?
A. A smell of flowers
B. Milk coming out sour
C. Rain from sunny skies
D. Butter not churning properly
Answer: D. Butter not churning properly
52. What plant causes the cow’s milk to have an unpleasant
“twang?”
A. Garlic weed
B. Rhubarb
C. Wild onion
D. Nettles
Answer: A. Garlic weed
53. When Angel offers to carry the girls across the flooded road,
what does he do to suggest that Tess is his favorite?
A. Goes slowly with Tess
B. Takes Tess first
C. Takes Tess last
D. Sings to Tess
Answer: A. Goes slowly with Tess
54. How do Marian, Izz, and Retty feel about Angel?
A. They distrust him
B. They don’t notice him
C. They are in love
D. They feel like siblings
Answer: C. They are in love
55. What is Tess doing the first time Angel embraces her and tells
her he loves her?
A. Driving to market
B. Milking cows
C. Walking in the woods
D. Sleeping
Answer: B. Milking cows
56. What change do Angel’s family notice after Angel spends time
with common farm folk?
A. He seems happier
B. He drinks more
C. He smells like outdoors
D. His manners have worsened
Answer: D. His manners have worsened
57. Who do the Clares want Angel to marry?
A. Izz
B. Mercy
C. Retty
D. Marian
Answer: B. Mercy
58. What is Tess doing when Angel embraces her and proposes to
her?
A. Reading a book
B. Taking a nap
C. Milking a cow
D. Packing to leave
Answer: B. Taking a nap
59. What does Angel think is Tess’s reason for refusing to marry
him?
A. She’s not a virgin
B. She doesn’t love him
C. Her low status
D. She’s leading him on
Answer: C. Her low status
60. When Mr. Durbeyfield learns that Tess is going to marry Angel,
what is his advice to Tess?
A. Don’t reveal your past
B. Enjoy this moment
C. Wait for someone richer
D. Have lots of children
Answer: A. Don’t reveal your past
61. Tess and Angel’s wedding is set for which date?
A. December 31
B. April 30
C. July 31
D. September 30
Answer: A. December 31
62. What does Angel do when a man from Alec d’Urberville’s village
says that Tess is not a virgin?
A. Ignores the man
B. Confronts Tess about it
C. Strikes the man
D. Says it doesn’t matter
Answer: C. Strikes the man
63. What ill omen occurs on the afternoon that Tess and Angel are
leaving for the wedding ceremony?
A. A wolf howls
B. A calf dies
C. A serpent is seen
D. A rooster crows
Answer: D. A rooster crows
64. Where do Tess and Angel go to stay after the wedding?
A. A hotel in Paris
B. The old d’Urberville estate
C. A farm in Tuscany
D. The Clare estate
Answer: B. The old d’Urberville estate
65. Angel’s father gives Tess some ___ that Angel’s godmother
bequeathed to Angel’s future wife.
A. Dresses
B. Land
C. Furniture
D. Jewelry
Answer: D. Jewelry
66.Tess is so shamed by her revelation to Angel that she offers to
______.
A. Hang herself
B. Shoot herself
C. Poison herself
D. Drown herself
Answer: D. Drown herself
67.Why can’t Angel and Tess get a divorce?
A. Angel is a parson
B. They are Catholic
C. They aren’t technically married
D. It’s illegal
Answer: D. It’s illegal
68.When Angel is sleepwalking, what does he do to Tess?
A. Puts her in a coffin
B. Hits her
C. Has sex with her
D. Forgives her
Answer: A. Puts her in a coffin
69.When Tess goes home after Angel abandons her, what does Tess’s
mother call Tess?
A. An innocent
B. A fool
C. A victim
D. A harlot
Answer: B. A fool
70.When Angel leaves for Brazil, how long does he tell his parents
he will be gone?
A. Three months
B. Six months
C. One year
D. Two years
Answer: C. One year
71.Who does Angel invite to go to Brazil with him?
A. Marian
B. Izz
C. Mercy
D. Retty
Answer: B. Izz
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97.What does Tess name her son?
A. Destiny
B. Hope
C. Sorrow
D. Burden
Answer: C. Sorrow
98.Who is giving the barn sermon that Tess stops in to hear?
A. Alec d’Urberville
B. Reverend Clare
C. Reverend Cuthbert
D. Angel Clare
Answer: A. Alec d’Urberville
99.Who offers financial help after Tess’s father dies?
A. Angel Clare
B. Alec d’Urberville
C. Angel’s parents
D. Mrs. d’Urberville
Answer: B. Alec d’Urberville
100.When Angel returns, how does Tess ultimately leave Alec?
A. She fakes her death
B. She gets him arrested
C. She runs away
D. She murders him
Answer: D. She murders him
SET-2
101. When John Durbeyfield learns that he is descended from a
noble line, what is he quick to attempt to do with the information?
A. Keep it hidden
B. Educate his daughters
C. Make a profit
D. Divorce his wife
Answer: C. Make a profit
102. Mrs. d’Urberville is ___ and frequently ill.
A. Blind
B. Deaf
C. Mute
D. Missing a leg
Answer: A. Blind
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145. Where does John go to celebrate his newly-discovered noble
lineage?
A. The parish church
B. A local drinking establishment
C. His father’s house
D. His family burial ground
Answer: B. A local drinking establishment
146. The day after learning about their noble heritage, what do
Tess and Abraham take to market?
A. Cattle
B. Wool
C. Bee hives
D. Barley
Answer: C. Bee hives
147. Tess suggests to Abraham that of the many stars that have
planets, their star must be a ___ one.
A. Forgiving
B. Forgotten
C. Blessed
D. Blighted
Answer: D. Blighted
148. What is the name of the horse that dies in the crash during
the return from market?
A. Laddy
B. Prince
C. Harold
D. Lancer
Answer: B. Prince
149. When Tess goes to the d’Urberville estate, how does it look?
A. Old and crumbling
B. New and fashionable
C. Small and cozy
D. Poorly-planned and unfinished
Answer: B. New and fashionable
150. What job does Tess take at the d’Urberville estate?
A. Tending fouls
B. Milking cows
C. Threshing grain
D. Cleaning the outbuildings
Answer: A. Tending fouls
151. When Alec is driving recklessly in a carriage, what happens
to Tess?
A. She falls off
B. She hits her head
C. She faints
D. She begs him to stop
Answer: She faints
152. What does Alec give Tess after she faints?
A. A ring
B. A glass of wine
C. A peppermint
D. Money
Answer: A peppermint
153. After Tess is executed, what does Angel do?
A. Leaves England
B. Marries Marian
C. Walks away with Liza-Lu
D. Dedicates a book to her
Answer: Walks away with Liza-Lu
154. What kind of ending does the novel have?
A. Comic
B. Ambiguous
C. Hopeful
D. Tragic
Answer: Tragic
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