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Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure"

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Thomas Hardys Jude the Obscure game quiz
""Jude the Obscure" was so controversial that Thomas Hardy never wrote another novel after its publication. Test your knowledge of one of Hardy's most famous works!"

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1. Jude Fawley, the novel's protagonist, longs to become a __________. Circumstances force him instead to become a __________.
    painter; gravedigger
    doctor; butcher
    scholar; stonemason
    lawyer; merchant


2. How does Arabella trap Jude into marrying her the first time?
    she steals his money
    she gets him drunk
    she threatens his life
    she feigns pregnancy


3. On their wedding night, what physical attribute of Arabella does Jude discover to be false?
    her teeth
    her hair
    her dimples
    her pregnancy


4. Where does Jude first see Sue?
    in a shop at Christminster
    in the stonemason's yard
    in church during a sermon
    in a portrait owned by his aunt Drusilla


5. What statues does Sue buy from the street vendor?
    Christ and the Virgin Mary
    Mars and Cupid
    Venus and Apollo
    St. Peter and St. Mary Magdalen


6. How are Jude and Sue related?
    they are siblings
    she is his aunt
    he is her uncle
    they are cousins


7. Who introduces Sue to Phillotson?
    Arabella
    Phillotson
    Drusilla
    Jude


8. Where does Jude encounter Arabella for the first time since she has left him?
    at Drusilla's funeral
    at an inn in Melchester
    at Sue's wedding
    at a bar in Christminster


9. What event causes Phillotson to consent to Sue's desire to leave him for Jude?
    Sue asks Phillotson if he will allow her to go to Jude
    Sue threatens to kill Phillotson if he will not allow her to leave
    Phillotson discovers Sue is pregnant by Jude
    Sue jumps out of a window to escape Phillotson


10. Why does Arabella grant Jude a divorce?
    she feels sorry for Jude and Sue
    she wants to marry another man
    she discovers that Jude has been unfaithful
    she wants to cut all ties in England and move to Australia


11. According to the legend told by the Widow Edlin, what happened to Jude's and Sue's common ancestor?
    he was hanged
    he killed his wife
    he divorced three times
    he never married and died alone


12. Why doesn't Sue want to marry Jude, even after they are already living together?
    she feels it will destroy their happiness
    she is really in love with phillotson
    she is worried about societal opinion of her marrying a relative
    she thinks that Jude is in love with Arabella


13. Why is Drusilla opposed to Jude marrying?
    because she wants him to stay in Marygreen and work for her
    because their family has bad luck with marriage
    because she wants Jude to be a scholar
    because she feels no woman is good enough for Jude


14. Little Father Time is the son of which couple?
    Jude and Sue
    no one knows who his parents are
    Phillotson and Sue
    Jude and Arabella


15. What event precipitates the marriage of Jude and Sue?
    the arrival of Little Father Time
    they never marry
    the divorce of Sue and Phillotson
    the divorce of Jude and Arabella


16. Choose the correct order of marriages and divorces as they occur in the novel.
    Sue and Phillotson marry, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Jude and Arabella divorce
    Jude and Arabella marry, Jude and Arabella divorce, Jude and Sue marry, Jude and Sue divorce, Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson marry
    Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella divorce, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella marry
    Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson marry, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Jude and Arabella divorce, Phillotson and Arabella marry, Jude and Sue marry


17. On what special day do Jude, Sue, and their family return to Christminster?
    Christmas Day
    Remembrance Day
    Easter Sunday
    St. George's Feast Day


18. What happens to Jude's three oldest children?
    they are sent to an orphanage
    they commit suicide
    they die of the plague
    they run away


19. How does Sue react to the fates of her children?
    she renounces her ties to Jude
    she joins a convent
    she prays for God to send her more children
    she decides to leave the country


20. According to Jude, what are his two greatest weaknesses?
    impatience and laziness
    ambition and pride
    women and alcohol
    naivete and stupidity


21. On the eve of her second marriage to Phillotson, what does the Widow Edlin advise Sue?
    not to marry Phillotson
    to show up for the wedding
    to pray for God's forgiveness
    to go back to Jude


22. How does Arabella get Jude to marry her the second time?
    she feigns pregnancy
    she gets him drunk
    she threatens Sue's life
    she steals his money


23. What is Sue's fate?
    she consummates her marriage with Phillotson
    she is rejected by Phillotson and Jude
    she commits suicide
    she goes insane


24. When Arabella discovers that Jude is dead, which of these does she do first?
    she summons the coroner
    she goes to see the boat races
    she writes a letter to Sue
    she covers Jude's body with a sheet


25. Which character utters the last lines of the novel?
    Jude
    Phillotson
    Sue
    Arabella


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