Important MCQ Thomas Hardy Part 3
31- The hero of The Wood Landers, the trader of apple and cedar lives in Blackmore vale in Dorset. He is Betrothed to Grace Melbury who rejects him and marries a fashionable doctor Edred Fatzpiers. What is his name?
(a)- Giles Winterborne *
(b)- Oak
(c)- Farfrae
(d)- None of these
32- “Justice was done and the President of the Immortals in Aeschylean phrase had ended his sport with…..” Fill the blank with the appropriate option.
(a)- Tess *
(b)- Alec
(c)- Durbyfield
(d)- None of these
33- Which is the epic drama by Hardy?
(a)- Winter Words
(b)- The Well-Beloved
(c)- The Dynasts *
(d)- The Trumpet Major
34- My Star, my star is what’s to blame, not I. It is unanswerable. Where do these lines appear?
(a)- Hardy’s The Dynasts *
(b)- Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes
(c)- Hardy’s The Return of The Native
(d)- None of these
35- In which novel, a boy nicknamed Father Time hangs his little brothers and sisters in a grim effort to save them from hunger and his parents from constant anxiety?
(a)- A Pair of Blue Eyes
(b)- Jude the Obscure *
(c)- Desperate Remedies
(d)- None of these
36- The Three Mariner’s Inn appears in:
(a)- The Return of the Native
(b)- Jude the Obscure
(c)- Desperate Remedies
(d)- The Mayor of Casterbridge *
37- Hardy calls Elizabeth Jane “This flower of Nature” Whose daughter is Elizabeth?
(a)- Abell Whittle
(b)- Henchard
(c)- Sailor Newson *
(d)- Farfrae
38- What has been immortalized by Hardy?
(a)- Malgudi
(b)- Lake District
(c)- Dorset
(d)- Wessex *
39- Sue is more:
(a)- With animal passion
(b)- Sexy with desire
(c)- Spiritualized
(d)- Intellectualized *
40- Jude Fawley, a stonemason wishes to be:
(a)- a scholar *
(b)- a builder
(c)- a mason
(d)- a millionaire
41- The famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall is:
(a)- A novel by Hardy
(b)- A One-Act Play by Hardy
(c)- A drama by Hardy *
(d)- None of these
42- Hardy has taken a clue from Shakespeare’s famous comedy ‘As You Like It’ for the title of one of his novels from one of its lines. Which novel?
(a)- Far From the Madding Crowd
(b)- All the World a Staage
(c)- Under the Greenwood Tree *
(d)- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
43- The Skimmington Ride in A Mayor of Casterbridge in organized in order to:
(a)- define Lucetta and Henchard *
(b)- popularize Lucetta and Henchard
(c)- bring Lucetta and Henchard into the limelight
(d)- defame Lucetta and Farfrae
44- “What does depress me is the sight of so much pain in the world, constant pain.” Whose words are these?
(a)- Hardy *
(b)- Dickens
(c)- Meredith
(d)- Shakespeare
45- The subtitle of the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge is:
(a)- The Story of a Drunkard
(b)- The Story of a Man of Mean Character
(c)- The Story of A Man of Character *
(d)- The Story of A Mad Man
