Important MCQ Thomas Hardy (Part 1)
Select the correct option:
1- Thomas Hardy was died of
(a)- Tuberculosis
(b)- Cancer
(c)- Cholera
(d)- Pleurisy*
2- Who has classified Hardy’s novels under the heads: Pastoral Tragedies, Pastoral Comedies, Pastoral Romances and Pastoral Extravaganza?
(a)- Thomas Hardy
(b)- Hugh Walker
(c)- A. C. Rickett*
(d)- None of these
3- How classified Wessex novels under the heads: ‘Novels of character and Environment’, ‘Romances and Fantasies’ and ‘Novels of Ingenuity and Experiment’?
(a)- Hardy Himself*
(b)- Compton Rickett
(c)- Hugh Walker
(d)- None of these
4- Thomas Hardy’s religious beliefs are the mixture of:
(a)- Agnosticism and Spiritism*
(b)- Spiritualism
(c)- Tantrism
(d)- Agnosticism
5- Which novel is the result of Hardy’s courtship with his first wife? This is the only novel that is without the touch of his pessimism.
(a)- A Pair of Blue Eyes
(b)- The Return of the Native
(c)- Far From the Madding Crowd*
(d)- None of these
6- This was the novel in which Hardy introduced Wessex. It became so popular that Hardy thought of pursuing a literary career and giving up architectural work. Which novel?
(a)- A Pair of Blue Eyes
(b)- Far From the Madding Crowd*
(c)- Mayor of Casterbridge
(d)- None of these
7- In a novel of Hardy two rivals for the same woman return to England and find that they are traveling on the train that carries her coffin. Which novel is this?
(a)- Desperate Remedies
(b)- Jude the Obscure
(c)- A Pair of Blue Eyes*
(d)- None of these
8- Thomas Hardy fell ill with pleurisy in December 1927. When did he die?
(a)- 11 February 1928
(b)- 11 December 1927
(c)- 11 March 1928
(d)- 11 January 1928*
9- What is the sub-title of Tess of the d’Urbervilles?
(a)- A Pure Woman: Faithfully Presented*
(b)- An Impure Woman: Unfaithfully Presented
(c)- An Impure Woman: Faithfully Presented
(d)- None of these
10- ‘Desperate Remedies’ was the result of the inspiration form:
(a)- Tennyson
(b)- Trollope
(c)- George Meredith*
(d)- None of these
11- Stephen Smith is a young architect who falls in love with Elfride, the blue eyed daughter of the Vicar. In which novel of Hardy does he appear?
(a)- Under the Greenwood Tree
(b)- A Pair of Blue Eyes*
(c)- Far From the Madding Crowd
(d)- None of these
12- A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet Major, Two on a Tower and The Well Beloved are included in:
(a)- Novels of Ingenuity and Experiment
(b)- The Last Novels
(c)- Romances and Fantasies*
(d)- None of these
13- In the novel ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge, there is the hay trusser who sells his wife Susan to Newson for five guineas in a fair held in Weyden Priors. Later he becomes the Mayor. Find him out.
(a)- Donald Farfrae
(b)- Michael Henchard*
(c)- Gabriel Oak
(d)- Jude
14- In the ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’ Lucetta Templeman, a Jersey girl comes to marry Henchard but marries his rival. Who is his rival in love and business?
(a)- Donald Farfrae*
(b)- Jude
(c)- Oak
(d)- None of these
15- After the death of Lucetta, Farfrae marries:
(a)- Sue
(b)- Tess
(c)- Elizabeth Jane*
(d)- Bathsheba
