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Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Literary Classics Workbook
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - Workbook featuring the unabridged text of this classic English novel, along with questions and activities. Free to print (PDF file).
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This workbook features the popular 1891 English novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. This masterpiece of English literature, set in 1870s Wessex, England, attracted Victorian audiences with its sharp portrayal of late-nineteenth-century social issues. Generations of readers have been entranced by the lives and troubles of young country girl Tess Durbeyfield, wealthy ne'er-do-well Alec d'Urberville, and handsome, enchanting Angel Clare. This novel is a standard on college-prep reading lists.

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This novel workbook is unabridged, 274 pages in length. The answer key is below.
 
 
Answer Key:
1. He is the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of d'Urberville
2. D - Wessex
3. Marlott
4. White
5. Angel, Cuthbert, and Felix
6. Tess
7. Rolliver's
8. A - Abraham
9. Kingsbere
10. Tess and Abraham
11. The horse is killed in a collision with a mail cart
12. The Slopes
13. Answers will vary
14. Alec
15. B - False
16. She allows her hat to blow off, so that she must retrieve it
17. A - True
18. Chaseborough
19. Alec's
20. B - False
21. Alec
22. Her mother, Joan Durbeyfield
23. B - False
24. Mechanical reaper or reaping machine
25. Sorrow
26. D - milkmaid
27. Valley of the Great Dairies
28. Richard Crick
29. Angel Clare
30. Intellectual liberty
31. Tess
32. C - Harp
33. Peter the Great
34. D - Morning
35. B - Liza-Lu
36. Tess feels unworthy of his affections
37. B - Marian, Izz, Retty, Tess
38. Angel runs over to Tess, hugs her, and confesses that he loves her
39. B - Mercy Chant
40. B - False
41. Rev. Clare preached directly to Alec from the pulpit, which led Alec to publicly insult Rev. Clare
42. A - True
43. Sunday
44. Angel
45. A - True
46. B - False
47. Answers will vary
48. December 31 (New Year's Eve)
49. The man recognized Tess from Trantridge, and insulted her
50. An afternoon crow
51. Jewelry
52. Retty Priddle
53. Angel
54. Answers will vary
55. They will separate, with Tess returning to her parents' home
56. Believing Tess dead, he places her in a coffin
57. Answers will vary
58. B - False
59. B - 50
60. B - Brazil
61. Izz Huett
62. She pities them and wants to end their misery
63. Marian
64. B - False
65. B - False
66. A - True
67. A - Cross-in-Hand
68. Marriage license
69. Alec d'Urberville
70. Answers will vary
71. Their mother is dying and their father is ill
72. B - Alec
73. Tess's father, John Durbeyfield
74. Rural-to-urban migration, or "the tendency of the rural population towards the large towns"
75. Kingsbere
76. Izz and Marian
77. Tess's mother, Joan Durbeyfield
78. Sandbourne
79. The Herons
80. Mrs. Brooks
81. Blood
82. Alec d'Urberville
83. Cuthbert Clare
84. A - True
85. Bramshurst Court
86. Stonehenge
87. Answers will vary.
Essay Questions - Answers will vary.
 
 
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