MCQs - "Tess of the D'urburvillies by Thomas Hardy

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

 

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.What is the primary reason why the Durbeyfields send Tess to Trantridge Cross?

So that she may claim kinship with the d'Urbervilles

So that she may not shame the family with her illegitimate child

So that she may find employment with Mrs. Stoke-d'Urberville.

So that she may eventually marry a nobleman

Answer: So that she may eventually marry a nobleman

 

18.Which of the Durbeyfields finally claims the family from Rolliver's?

Joan

Abraham

Tess

John

Answer: Tess

 

19.What is the name of Tess's illegitimate child?

Mourning

Sorrow

Abraham

Pity

Answer: Sorrow

 

20.At what location does Alec seduce Tess?

Marlott

The Chase

Trantridge Cross

Chasebourough

Answer: The Chase

 

21.Which of the following is not significant about Mrs. Stoke-d'Urberville's first meeting with Tess?

It shows that Tess is different from other common workers.

It shows that Alec has brought Tess there under false pretenses.

It shows that Mrs. d'Urberville holds great control over her son.

It destroys Tess's hope of claiming kinship with the d'Urbervilles.

Answer: It shows that Mrs. d'Urberville holds great control over her son.

 

22.According to Joan Durbeyfield, what is the 'trump card' that Tess has?

Her education

Her face

Her innocence

The d'Urberville name

Answer: Her face

 

23.Which of the following is not a possible reason why Tess is seduced by Alec?

She is too tired to resist his advances.

She believes that she loves him.

She believes that to resist him proves that she is ungrateful and unkind.

She is momentarily attracted to him.

Answer: She believes that she loves him.

 

24.Which of the following is most significant about the baptism?

It signals the severing of her ties with her family, who now fear Tess.

It is a rebirth for Tess, who finds herself more mature and powerful afterwards.

By naming her child, Tess makes it human rather than a symbol of her anguish.

The life-giving ceremony of baptism is an event that precipitates the child's death.

Answer: It is a rebirth for Tess, who finds herself more mature and powerful afterwards.

 

25.Which of the following is not significant about the death of the Durbeyfield's horse?

The death of the horse foreshadows later deaths caused during carriage rides.

Although the death of Prince is an accident, Tess feels that she is to blame.

The death of the horse makes Tess feel guilty, causing her to agree to her father's plan to claim kinship.

Tess bears responsibility for the death of the horse, but the tragedy occurs because of her family's irresponsibility and not her own.

Answer: The death of the horse foreshadows later deaths caused during carriage rides.

 

26.What is significant about Alec saving Tess from Car Darch?

This shows for the first time that Alec has been stalking Tess.

Alec proves more dangerous to Tess than Car would have.

This shows that Alec is an essentially noble person.

Alec refuses to admit that he performed a noble action, and instead insists that he did so merely to get closer to Tess.

Answer: Alec proves more dangerous to Tess than Car would have.

 

27.Why does Izz Huett suggest that Angel will never marry Tess?

Angel will become a large land-owning farmer and will marry an upper-class woman.

Angel will reject Tess once he learns about Alec d'Urberville.

Angel hates the members of aristocratic families.

Angel will follows his parents' wishes and marry Mercy Chant.

Answer: Angel will become a large land-owning farmer and will marry an upper-class woman.

 

28.What is the significance of the story of Jack Dollop?

The story reminds Tess that women who lose their virginity before marriage generally come to a tragic end.

The story foreshadows the romance between Angel Clare and Tess Durbeyfield.

Tess draws upon her personal experiences and finds tragedy in a story that others find humorous.

Angel frames the story in terms of religious beliefs and finds a sense of moral uplift in it, while others only view it as a comic anecdote.

Answer: Tess draws upon her personal experiences and finds tragedy in a story that others find humorous.

 

29.What event causes Tess to realize Angel's affection for her?

Angel selects Tess to accompany him to the train station with the milk.

Angel attempts to kiss Tess when they are alone together for the first time.

Angel arranges the cows so that she may milk her favorite ones.

Angel carries Tess across the flooded road when she goes to church.

Answer: Angel arranges the cows so that she may milk her favorite ones.

 

30.Which word best describes Felix and Cuthbert Clare?

Domineering

Obstinate

Fashionable

Intellectual

Answer: Fashionable

 

31.Which of the following is the initial reason that Tess gives for rejecting Angel's proposal of marriage?

Tess has a shameful past that prevents her from marrying Angel.

Angel's parents will oppose the marriage.

Retty Priddle is a more suitable match for Angel.

Tess is a d'Urberville, a member of a once aristocratic family that Angel despises.

Answer: Angel's parents will oppose the marriage.

 

32.Which of the following causes Tess to set a date for the wedding?

Angel must leave Talbothays for different employment by a certain date before which they must be married.

Tess follows her mother's advice that she should marry as soon as possible.

Dairyman Crick fires Tess from Talbothays for the winter months.

Angel issues an ultimatum that they be married by the end of the year.

Answer: Dairyman Crick fires Tess from Talbothays for the winter months.

 

33.Which of the following characters attempts suicide after Angel leaves Talbothays to be married?

Mercy Chant

Marian

Izzy Huett

Retty Priddle

Answer: Retty Priddle

 

34.According to Angel, when do members of the d'Urberville family see the d'Urberville coach?

After they have committed a crime.

He does not say.

Before they are about to die.

Before they are about to be married.

Answer: He does not say.

 

35.What motivates Tess to speak to Angel about her past?

Tess realizes that Angel has not read the letter she has written him.

Angel admits his sins to Tess.

A man from Trantridge recognizes her.

Joan Durbeyfield advises Tess to tell him.

Answer: Angel admits his sins to Tess.

 

36.Which most accurately describes Angel's reaction to Tess's news?

He still feels that he loves her.

He cannot forgive her.

He wishes that she were dead.

He believes that she is another person entirely.

Answer: He believes that she is another person entirely.

 

37.Which of the following does Angel not do while he is sleepwalking?

Places Tess in a coffin

Claims that he is dead.

Kisses Tess

Carries Tess across a river

Answer: Claims that he is dead.

 

38.What is the subject of the Biblical verse that the Clares read with Angel?

Adultery

Praise for a virtuous wife

Dedication to higher ideals

Forgiveness

Answer: Praise for a virtuous wife

 

39.Whom does Angel invite to accompany him to Brazil?

Marian

Izz Huett

Retty Priddle

Mercy Chant

Answer: Izz Huett

 

40.Which of the following is not significant about Angel sleepwalking?

It demonstrates that Angel is intensely troubled by his decision.

It demonstrates that Tess remains in control of her husband.

It demonstrates that Tess is unconditionally devoted to Angel.

It demonstrates that Angel still loves Tess.

Answer: It demonstrates that Tess remains in control of her husband.

 

41.Which character calls Tess "a damned witch of Babylon"?

Cuthbert Clare

Farmer Groby

Angel Clare

Alec d'Urberville

Answer: Alec d'Urberville

 

SET-2

1.The action of the novel takes place in what area of England?

Essex

Sussex

Wessex

London

Answer: Wessex

 

2.Which of the following does John Durbeyfield learn at the beginning of the novel?

That he has lost his job

That he comes from an aristocratic family

That he won the lottery

That he is a prince

Answer: That he comes from an aristocratic family

 

3.Angel and Tess first see each other at:

The market

The May Day dance

Trantridge

Talbothays Dairy

Answer: The May Day dance

 

4.Who tells Angel that Tess has gone to Sandbourne?

Mrs. Brooks

Reverend Clare

Alec

Mrs. Durbeyfield

Answer: Mrs. Durbeyfield

 

5.After Angel picks up Tess while sleepwalking, where does he place her?

In a coffin

In their bed

On a rock

On a bridge

Answer: In a coffin

 

6.Which of these women is not a milkmaid?

Marian

Izz

Mercy

Retty

Answer: Mercy

 

7.Angel plays which musical instrument?

The harpsichord

The accordion

The harp

The guitar

Answer: The harp

 

8.In what town did Tess grow up?

Kingsbere

Trantridge

Sandbourne

Marlott

Answer: Marlott

 

9.Why can’t Mr. Durbeyfield make the trip to the market?

He is too sick

He is too tired

He is too old

He is too drunk

Answer: He is too drunk

 

10.What advice does Mrs. Durbeyfield give Tess?

Not to tell Angel her secret

Not to tell Alec her secret

To leave Alec

To marry Alec

Answer: Not to tell Angel her secret

 

11.How much money does Angel give to Tess?

100 shillings

100 pounds

50 pounds

50 shillings

Answer: 50 pounds

 

12.How much of the money does Tess initially give to her family?

25 shillings

25 pounds

50 pounds

50 shillings

Answer: 25 pounds

 

13.What part of the house do the Durbeyfields need to repair?

The floor

The wall

The roof

The door

Answer: The roof

 

14.Where is the Talbothays Dairy located?

The Valley of the Herons

The Valley of Marlott

The Valley of the Great Dairies

The Valley of the Small Dairies

Answer: The Valley of the Great Dairies

 

15.Who does Cuthbert Clare marry?

Izz

Mercy Chant

Liza-Lu

Marian

Answer: Mercy Chant

 

16.Midway through the novel, Alec becomes a:

Farmer

Preacher

Traveling salesman

Nice guy

Answer: Preacher

 

17.Who is primarily responsible for Prince’s death?

Mr. Durbeyfield

Parson Tringham

Abraham

Tess

Answer: Tess

 

18.Angel leaves England to farm where?

America

Italy

Brazil

Argentina

Answer: Brazil

 

19.What is the stone monument called on which Alec makes Tess swear?

Stonehenge

Poor Man’s Pass

Cross-in-Hand

The Rosetta Stone

Answer: Cross-in-Hand

 

20.Which of these people or animals does Tess not kill?

The pheasants

Alec

Sorrow, her baby

Prince, the horse

Answer: Sorrow, her baby

 

21.What is the name of the bar to which the Durbeyfield’s go?

McSorely’s

Rolliver’s

Heffernan’s

Ye Olde Pubbe

Answer: Rolliver’s

 

22.What does Tess confess to Angel on their wedding night?

That she lied about her age

That she does not love him

That she is not a virgin

That she ran away from home

Answer: That she is not a virgin

 

23.Liza-Lu is Tess’s:

Daughter

Sister

Mother

Friend

Answer: Sister

 

24.How does Alec die?

He commits suicide

Angel kills him

Tess kills him

He does not die

Answer: Tess kills him

 

25.How does Tess die?

Pneumonia

She is hanged

Angel kills her

Heartache

Answer: She is hanged

 

26.Who surprises John Durbeyfield by calling him “Sir John”?

A merchant

A parson

A sailor

A nun

Answer: A parson

 

27.When John learns about his noble ancestry, what kind of festival is Tess attending?

May Day

Harvest

Christmas

Easter

Answer: May Day

 

28.When Tess and the other girls are at the festival, who do they encounter?

Three local farmhands

Three visiting soldiers

Three highborn brothers

Three young beggars

Answer: Three highborn brothers

 

29.Where does Mrs. Durbeyfield hide her copy of the Compleat Fortune-Teller?

Under her mattress

The coal cellar

Behind a bookcase

The outhouse

Answer: The outhouse

 

30.Where does John go to celebrate his newly-discovered noble lineage?

The parish church

A local drinking establishment

His father’s house

His family burial ground

Answer: A local drinking establishment

 

31.The day after learning about their noble heritage, what do Tess and Abraham take to market?

Cattle

Wool

Bee hives

Barley

Answer: Bee hives

 

32.Tess suggests to Abraham that of the many stars that have planets, their star must be a ___ one.

Forgiving

Forgotten

Blessed

Blighted

Answer: Blighted

 

33.What is the name of the horse that dies in the crash during the return from market?

Laddy

Prince

Harold

Lancer

Answer: Prince

 

34.When Tess goes to the d’Urberville estate, how does it look?

Old and crumbling

New and fashionable

Small and cozy

Poorly-planned and unfinished

Answer: New and fashionable

 

35.What job does Tess take at the d’Urberville estate?

Tending fouls

Milking cows

Threshing grain

Cleaning the outbuildings

Answer: Tending fouls

 

36.When Alec is driving recklessly, he agrees to slow down if Tess will ___.

Marry him

Have sex with him

Hold him

Kiss him

Answer: Kiss him

 

37.Who agrees to help Tess learn how to blow whistles?

Mrs. d’Urberville

Izz

Alec

Retty

Answer: Alec

 

38.When Tess’s friends get drunk, why are they irritated with Tess?

She’s the richest

Her irritating voice

Alec gives her attention

Her poor farm skills

Answer: Alec gives her attention

 

39.What does Alec buy for Tess’s father in order to win Tess’s favor?

A new suit

A new horse

A new cart

A new house

Answer: A new horse

 

40.What is Tess doing when Alec first takes advantage of her sexually?

Sleeping

Praying

Imagining Angel

Drinking

Answer: Sleeping

 

41.What does the sign painter stop to paint when he’s talking with Tess?

THY DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT

REMEMBER YOU ARE LOVED

GOD HEARS ALL PRAYERS

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Answer: THY DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT

 

42.Why does Tess stop attending church after she becomes pregnant?

She hears people whispering

She is too ill

The parson requests it

Alec won’t let her

Answer: She hears people whispering

 

43.While she is pregnant Tess eventually only goes out ___.

With a group

After dark

In disguise

On Sundays

Answer: After dark

 

44.Where does Tess lay her dead baby to rest?

Manger in the barn

Bed made from rags

Beneath an oak tree

Corner of the churchyard

Answer: Corner of the churchyard

 

45.When Tess realizes that she can never be happy at Marlott, what job does she take at Talbothays Dairy?

Chamber maid

Cook

Milkmaid

Barn sweep

Answer: Milkmaid

 

46.Who is the master dairyman at Talbothays?

Alec d’Urberville

Reverend Cuthbert

Angel Clare

Richard Crick

Answer: Richard Crick

 

47.Who was Angel involved with before coming to Talbothays?

An underage girl

A foreign woman

An older woman

A prostitute

Answer: An older woman

 

48.Why does Tess initially try to stay away from Angel?

She’s not attracted

Embarrassment about her pregnancy

He’s highborn

Fear of being rejected

Answer: Embarrassment about her pregnancy

 

49.Angel breaks the rules by arranging for Tess to have her favorite ___ to work with.

Cows

Coworkers

Tools

Horses

Answer: Cows

 

50.What instrument does Angel play?

Fiddle

Harp

Flute

Piano

Answer: Harp

 

51.What is interpreted as a sign that two people on the farm are in love?

A smell of flowers

Milk coming out sour

Rain from sunny skies

Butter not churning properly

Answer: Butter not churning properly

 

52.What plant causes the cow’s milk to have an unpleasant “twang?’

Garlic weed

Rhubarb

Wild onion

Nettles

Answer: 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?

Goes slowly with Tess

Takes Tess first

Takes Tess last

Sings to Tess

Answer: Goes slowly with Tess

 

54.How do Marian, Izz, and Retty feel about Angel?

The distrust him

They don’t notice him

They are in love

The feel like siblings

Answer: They are in love

 

55.What is Tess doing the first time Angel embraces her and tells her he loves her?

Driving to market

Milking cows

Walking in the woods

Sleeping

Answer: Milking cows

 

56.What change do Angel’s family notice after Angel spends time with common farm folk?

He seems happier

He drinks more

He smells like outdoors

His manners have worsened

Answer: His manners have worsened

 

57.Who do the Clares want Angel to marry?

Izz

Mercy

Retty

Marian

Answer: Mercy

 

58.What is Tess doing when Angel embraces her and proposes to her?

Reading a book

Taking a nap

Milking a cow

Packing to leave

Answer: Taking a nap

 

59.What does Angel think is Tess’s reason for refusing to marry him?

She’s not a virgin

She doesn’t love him

Her low status

She’s leading him on

Answer: Her low status

 

60.When Mr. Durbeyfield learns that Tess is going to marry Angel, what is his advice to Tess?

Don’t reveal your past

Enjoy this moment

Wait for someone richer

Have lots of children

Answer: Don’t reveal your past

 

61.Tess and Angel’s wedding is set for which date?

December 31

April 30

July 31

September 30

Answer: December 31

 

62.What does Angel do when a man from Alec d’Urberville’s village says that Tess is not a virgin?

Ignores the man

Confronts Tess about it

Strikes the man

Says it doesn’t matter

Answer: Strikes the man

 

63.What ill omen occurs on the afternoon that Tess and Angel are leaving for the wedding ceremony?

A wolf howls

A calf dies

A serpent is seen

A rooster crows

Answer: A rooster crows

 

64.Where do Tess and Angel go to stay after the wedding?

A hotel in Paris

The old d’Urberville estate

A farm in Tuscany

The Clare estate

Answer: The old d’Urberville estate

 

65.Angel’s father gives Tess some ___ that Angel’s godmother bequeathed to Angel’s future wife.

Dresses

Land

Furniture

Jewelry

Answer: Jewelry

 

66.Tess is so shamed by her revelation to Angel that she offers to ______.

Hang herself

Shoot herself

Poison herself

Drown herself

Answer: Drown herself

 

67.Why can’t Angel and Tess get a divorce?

Angel is a parson

They are Catholic

They aren’t technically married

It’s illegal

Answer: It’s illegal

 

68.When Angel is sleepwalking, what does he do to Tess?

Puts her in a coffin

Hits her

Has sex with her

Forgives her

Answer: Puts her in a coffin

 

69.When Tess goes home after Angel abandons her, what does Tess’s mother call Tess?

An innocent

A fool

A victim

A harlot

Answer: A fool

 

70.When Angel leaves for Brazil, how long does he tell his parents he will be gone?

Three months

Six months

One year

Two years

Answer: One year

 

71.Who does Angel invite to go to Brazil with him?

Marian

Izz

Mercy

Retty

Answer: Izz

 

72.When Tess sends her parents almost all her money, what have they asked for her help with?

A new horse

A new roof

A new barn

A new cart

Answer: A new roof

 

73.How does Tess try to protect herself from lustful men?

Staying indoors

Posing as a man

Making herself ugly

Acting violent and insane

Answer: Making herself ugly

 

74.What do Tess and Marian work at digging up at the farm near Flintcomb-Ash?

Carrots

Potatoes

Turnips

Rutabagas

Answer: Rutabagas

 

75.What items of Tess’s do the Clares find, assuming that they belong to a peasant?

Her boots

Her hair ribbons

Her gloves

Her work clothes

Answer: Her boots

 

76.What does Tess feel when Alec preaches about his religious conversion?

Terror

Hope

Indifference

Shame

Answer: Terror

 

77.Who led Alec to his religious conversion?

Reverend Cuthbert

Reverend Clare

Mr. d’Urberville

Mrs. d’Urberville

Answer: Reverend Clare

 

78.What does Alec read from to calm himself after seeing Tess?

Letter from his mother

Bible

Letter from Reverend Clare

Hymnal

Answer: Letter from Reverend Clare

 

79.When Alec proposes to Tess in the fields, where does he suggest they go to become missionaries?

South America

Australia

Asia

Africa

Answer: Africa

 

80.When Alec says that Angel is neglecting Tess, what does Tess strike Alec with?

A leather glove

A bag of vegetables

A fireplace poker

A horse whip

Answer: A leather glove

 

81.Who forwards Tess’s letter to Angel in Brazil?

Reverend Cuthbert

Angel’s parents

Izz

Felix Clare

Answer: Angel’s parents

 

82.Who brings word that Tess’s mother is dying?

Tess’s father

Liza-Lu

Abraham

Retty

Answer: Liza-Lu

 

83.After Tess’s father dies, they lose the house because the landlord wants to use it for ___.

Wealthier tenants

A barn

Worker housing

Storage

Answer: Worker housing

 

84.According to d’Urberville family lore, what ghostly sound is supposed to be a bad omen?

Rattling chains

A barking dog

A crying woman

A coach

Answer: A coach

 

85.Where does Tess go to sleep when she can no longer find lodging?

The churchyard

A public park

A cattle pen

The forest

Answer: The churchyard

 

86.When Angel returns for Tess, where does he learn that she is staying?

A graveyard

An expensive lodging house

With Angel’s parents

The d’Urberville estate

Answer: An expensive lodging house

 

87.What is the landlady’s first clue that Alec has been murdered?

Sound of a body falling

Tess with a knife

Blood leaking through ceiling

Sound of a scream

Answer: Blood leaking through ceiling

 

88.Where is Tess when she is finally arrested?

Stonehenge

The d’Urberville mansion

London Bridge

Outside her childhood house

Answer: Stonehenge

 

89.Who does Tess hope that Angel will marry?

Izz

Retty

Mercy

Liza-Lu

Answer: Liza-Lu

 

90.What tells Angel and Tess’s sister that Tess has been executed?

A black flag

A tolling bell

Smoke rising from town

A messenger boy

Answer: A black flag

 

91.When was Thomas Hardy born?

1760

1800

1840

1880

Answer: 1840

 

92.Though he is now remembered as a novelist, Hardy saw himself first and foremost as what?

An architect

A clergyman

A musician

A poet

Answer: A poet

 

93.What was depicted in Tess’s personal struggles that caused controversy when the novel came out?

Sexual hypocrisy

Poverty

Religious uncertainty

Rural labor practices

Answer: Sexual hypocrisy

 

94.What duality, represented by the relationship between the Durbeyfields and the d’Urbervilles, also caused controversy?

Old/new money

Rural/city families

Emigrant/native bloodlines

Christian/pagan traditions

Answer: Old/new money

 

95.What was Thomas Hardy’s last novel?

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Jude the Obscure

Far from the Maddening Crowd

Return of the Native

Answer: Jude the Obscure

 

96.Why does Tess take the job at the d’Urberville estate?

Her family needs money

To claim her nobility

She doesn’t like home

She’s falling for Alec

Answer: Her family needs money

 

97.What does Tess name her son?

Destiny

Hope

Sorrow

Burden

Answer: Sorrow

 

98.Who is giving the barn sermon that Tess stops in to hear?

Alec d’Urberville

Reverend Clare

Reverend Cuthbert

Angel Clare

Answer: Alec d’Urberville

 

99.Who offers financial help after Tess’s father dies?

Angel Clare

Alec d’Urberville

Angel’s parents

Mrs. d’Urberville

Answer: Alec d’Urberville

 

100.When Angel returns, how does Tess ultimately leave Alec?

She fakes her death

She gets him arrested

She runs away

She murders him

Answer: She murders him

 

101.When John Durbeyfield learns that he is descended from a noble line, what is he quick to attempt to do with the information?

Keep it hidden

Educate his daughters

Make a profit

Divorce his wife

Answer: Make a profit

 

102.Mrs. d’Urberville is ___ and frequently ill.

Blind

Deaf

Mute

Missing a leg

Answer: Blind

 

103.What does Retty Priddle do when Angel Clare chooses to marry Tess?

Starts drinking

Tries to kill Tess

Moves away

Attempts suicide

Answer: Attempts suicide

 

104.How does Mrs. Clare feel about social class?

She’s a snob

She’s embarrassed

She’s humble

She’s indifferent

Answer: She’s a snob

 

105.What job do Angel’s father and two brothers hold?

Farmers

Clergymen

Accountants

Poets

Answer: Clergymen

 

106.Who calls Tess Artemis, Demeter, and Daughter of Nature?

Angel

Her father

Her mother

Alec

Answer: Angel

 

107.In a religious sense, what does Tess represent?

Righteous justice

Fallen humanity

Wandering Israelites

Salvation

Answer: Fallen humanity

 

108.How does Alec come to be part of the d’Urberville lineage?

Through his father’s father

Through his mother’s father

Family purchased the lineage

He was adopted

Answer: Family purchased the lineage

 

109.In a religious sense, who does Alec represent?

Jesus

Moses

Adam

Satan

Answer: Satan

 

110.Angel yearns to dedicate his life to the honor and glory of ___.

God

Himself

Tess

Man

Answer: Man

 

111.As represented in the novel, the forces that control human life are ___.

Kind to the meek

Owned by the rich

Just and fair

Unpredictable

Answer: Unpredictable

 

112.In the Victorian context represented in this novel, what is the most important factor in social status?

Lineage

Education

Wealth

Destiny

Answer: Wealth

 

113.What is Mr. d’Urberville’s real last name?

Stokes

Miller

Venn

Durbeyfield

Answer: Stokes

 

114.What animals does Tess find in the woods, maimed by hunters and suffering?

Deer

Pheasants

Foxes

Badgers

Answer: Pheasants

 

115.What symbol is used to convey both the majestic grandeur and the lifeless hollowness of an aristocratic name?

The d’Urberville family vault

A huge, dead oak

The Crumbling d’Urberville estate

The Cross-in-Hand

Answer: The d’Urberville family vault