Collection of important MCQs on Thomas Hardy
What is the name of the hero of a novel of Hardy, who rises from the position of a hay.
cutter to the position of a Mayor?
(A) Clym Yeobright
(B) Angel Clare
(C) Donald Farfrae
(D) Michael Henchard
Question’s Answer: Michael Henchard
In which of the novels Hardy says, “Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general
drama of pain. In Which novels?
(A) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(B) Tess
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) Return of the Native
Question’s Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge
In which of Hardy’s novels the scene of a wife’s auction takes place ?
(A) Jude the Obscure
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(D) Return of the Native
Question’s Answer: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy gives to one of his novels the title
“Far From the Madding Crowd.” From where has he borrowed this
title ?
(A) From Collins’s Ode to Evening
(B) Shelley’s Adonais
(C) Matthew Arnold’s Thyrsis
(D) Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Question’s Answer: Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Whom does Tess kill in an emotional fury?
(A) Alec D’ Urberville
(B) Clym
(C) Angel Clare
(D) Michael Henchard
Question’s Answer: Alec D’ Urberville
Clym Yeobright is a character in :
(A) Far From the Madding Crowd
(B) The Woodlanders
(C) Two on a Tower
(D) The Return of the Native
Question’s Answer: The Return of the Native
What is meant by Wessex?
(A) The home town of Hardy
(B) The region where Hardy’s ancestors lived
(C) The region in which hardy’s novels are set
(D) A typical region where poor peasants and workers lived in Hardy’s time.
Question’s Answer: The region in which hardy’s novels are set
It is said that the most significant character in Hardy’s novels is not a person but a place.
What is that place?
(A) Casterbridge
(B) Wessex region
(C) Egdon Heath
(D) Derbyfield
Question’s Answer: Egdon Heath
What is Hardy’s Dynasts ?
(A) An epic drama written by Hardy
(B) A Collection of Hardy’s short stories
(C) The last novel of Hardy
(D) A Collection of Hardy’s poems
Question’s Answer: An epic drama written by Hardy
Hardy was honoured with which of the following?
(A) Order of Merit
(B) Knighthood
(C) Honorary Degree of Doctorate
(D) The Nobel Prize
Question’s Answer: Order of Merit
According to Hardy, God is essentially:
(A) Merciful
(B) Malicious
(C) Indifferent
(D) Merciless
Question’s Answer: Merciless
“As flies to the wanton boys are we to the god,
They kill us for their sport.”
These lines of Shakespeare have been quoted by Hardy in one of his novels. In which of
the following novels?
(A) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(B) Tess
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) The Return of the Native
Question’s Answer: Tess
In which novel does Sue Bridehead appear as a character ?
(A) Far From the Madding Crowd
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) The Return of the Native
Question’s Answer: Jude the Obscure
In which novel does Giles Winterbourne appear as the hero?
(A) The Woodlanders
(B) Far From the Madding Crowd
(C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(D) Two on a Tower
Question’s Answer: The Woodlanders
Which heroes writes his will before his death?
(A) Angel Clare
(B) Jude Fawley
(C) Henchard
(D) Wildeve
Question’s Answer: Henchard
One of the heroines of Hardy is hanged to death by the order of the Court. Who is she?
(A) Sue Bridehead
(B) Thomasin
(C) Eustacia Vye
(D) Tess
Question’s Answer: Tess
Who is the rival of Michael Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge?
(A) Wildeve
(B) Clym
(C) Gabriel Oak
(D) Donald Farfrae
Question’s Answer: Donald Farfrae
From where did Hardy take the hint for the title Under the Greenwood Tree?
(A) Keats’s Ode to Autumn
(B) Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey
(C) Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind
(D) Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Question’s Answer: Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Which is a novel by Hardy ?
(A) A Laodicean
(B) The Antiquity
(C) Jonathan Wild
(D) The Last of Barons
Question’s Answer: A Laodicean
How many Parts are there in Hardy’s Dynasts?
(A) Three
(B) Two
(C) Four
(D) Five
Question’s Answer: Three
What is the central idea/theme of Hardy’s Dynasts?
(A) The Industrial Revolution
(B) The glories of the reign of Victoria
(C) The Napoleonic wars
(D) The expanding British Empire
Question’s Answer: The Napoleonic wars
Hardy believed in the philosophy of which of the following?
(A) Man is the master of his own fate
(B) Character is destiny
(C) Free Will
(D) Immanent Will
Question’s Answer: Immanent Will
Hardy was essentially:
(A) An atheist
(B) An agnostic
(C) A thiest
(D) An iconoclast
Question’s Answer: An agnostic
Eustacia Vye appears in:
(A) The Return of the Native
(B) Tess
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) Desperate Remedies
Question’s Answer: The Return of the Nativ
Hardy is called the novelist of which of the following?
(A) The Lake Districts
(B) The Mining Countryside
(C) The Scottish Highlands
(D) The Wessex Region
Question’s Answer: The Wessex Region
Gabriel Oak is a character in :
(A) Desperate Remedies
(B) Under the Greenwood Tree
(C) Far From the Madding Crowd
(D) The Woodlanders
Question’s Answer: Far From the Madding Crowd
Which is a poetical collection of Hardy?
(A) The Sphin
(B) Ballads and Poems
(C) Poems of the Past and the Present
(D) The Songs of the Cold
Question’s Answer: Poems of the Past and the Present
Which is a drama written by Hardy?
(A) The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall
(B) Heartbreak House
(C) The Skin Game
(D) The Inn of Tranquillity
Question’s Answer: The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall
Hardy’s characters are types, though not without individuality. Whose view is this?
(A) H.C. Duffin
(B) D.H. Lawrence
(C) Jean Brooks
(D) David Cecil
Question’s Answer: Jean Brooks
Which is not a novel by Hardy?
(A) A Laodicean
(B) The Heart of Midlothian
(C) The Trumpet Major
(D) The Hand of Ethelberta
Question’s Answer: The Heart of Midlothian
Which novel is written by Thomas Hardy?
(a) Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man
(b) The Sun Also Rises
(c) The Return of the Native
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Return of the Native
Hardy: “The Offensive Truth” written by J.Goode was published in which year?
(a) 1982
(b) 1983
(c) 1990
(d) 1988
Question’s Answer: 1988
Hardy’s autobiography was published in which year?
(a) 1929
(b) 1928
(c) 1927
(d) 1930
Question’s Answer: 1928
“The Poor Man and The Lady” is written by:
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Walter Allen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
“Desperate Remedies” is a novel written by:
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Hemingway
(c) James Joyce
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
During his last years, Hardy remained for most of his time at his house in:
(a) London
(b) California
(c) Paris
(d) Dorchester
Question’s Answer: Dorchester
A feminist reading of Hardy by Patricia Ingham was published in which year?
(a) 1987
(b) 1988
(c) 1990
(d) 1989
Question’s Answer: 1989
Which is a novel by Thomas Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) Old Man and The Sea
(c) (a) & (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Jude the Obscure
“The Return of the Native” is a:
(a) Poem
(b) Drama
(c) Novel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novel
Which is not a novel by Thomas Hardy?
(a) The Mayor of Caster Bridge
(b) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(c) (a) & (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Which is not a novel by Hardy?
(a) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(b) Adam Bede
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Adam Bede
Which is a novel by Thomas Hardy?
(a) Far From the Madding Crowd
(b) Hard Times
(c) The Sun Also Rises
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Far From the Madding Crowd
Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:
(a) Social Forces
(b) Fate
(c) Providence
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fate
“The Life and Works of Thomas Hardy” by Michael Millgate was published in which year?
(a) 1980
(b) 1982
(c) 1987
(d) 1985
Question’s Answer: 1985
“Thomas Hardy: A Biography” by Michael Millgate was published in which year?
(a) 1982
(b) 1981
(c) 1980
(d) 1983
Question’s Answer: 1982
The of “Jude the Obscure” written by Hardy is:
(a) Sex and marriage
(b) Present civilization
(c) Tragedy of life
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sex and marriage
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy is:
(a) A comedy
(b) A tragedy
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A tragedy
Which is not a novel y Hardy?
(a) The Sun also Rises
(b) The Tale of Two Cities
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Tale of Two Cities
The novel “The Poor Man and the Lady” was proudly written by:
(a) Achebe
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Ahmad Ali
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
“Under the Greenwood Tree” is written by:
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) George Eliot
(c) Earnest Hemingway
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
“Jude the Obscure by Hardy was published in which year?
(a) 1894
(b) 1895
(c) 1897
(d) 1896
Question’s Answer: 1896
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles” was published in which year?
(a) 1894
(b) 1891
(c) 1893
(d) 1892
Question’s Answer: 1891
Hardy was a:
(a) Early Victorian
(b) Late Victorian
(c) Mid Victorian
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Late Victorian
Which is not a novel by Hardy?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Hard Times
(c) Under the Greenwood Tree
(d) Both (a) & (b)
Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)
The first published work of Hardy was:
(a) The Mayor of Caster Bridge
(b) How I Built Myself a House
(c) Jude the Obscure
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: How I Built Myself a House
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is a novel written by:
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Thackeray
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
“The Mayor of Caster Bridge” by Hardy was published in which year?
(a) 1887
(b) 1886
(c) 1888
(d) 1889
Question’s Answer: 1886
Hardy’s wife Emma pass away in:
(a) 1910
(b) 1914
(c) 1913
(d) 1912
Question’s Answer: 1912
Hardy’s first published novel was:
(a) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(b) The Return Of The Natives
(c) Desperate Remedies
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Desperate Remedies
“Jude the Obscure” by Hardy first appeared in Harper’s magazine in an abridged form in:
(a) 1895
(b) 1894
(c) 1896
(d) 1897
Question’s Answer: 1894
Hardy’s first collection of verse Wessex Poems was published in which year?
(a) 1897
(b) 1899
(c) 1898
(d) 1900
Question’s Answer: 1898
Thomas Hardy pass away in:
(a) 1927
(b) 1930
(c) 1929
(d) 1928
Question’s Answer: 1928
The novel “The Mayor of Caster Bridge” was proudly written by:
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Paul Mark Scott
(c) Joseph Andrews
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
An Essay on Hardy by John Bayley was published in which year?
(a) 1976
(b) 1977
(c) 1979
(d) 1978
Question’s Answer: 1978
Which is not a novel by Thomas Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) Heart of Darkness
(c) Under the Greenwood Tree
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Heart of Darkness
The heroine of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is:
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Lydia
(c) Tess
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tess
Hardy the Creator by Simon Gatrell was published in which year?
(a) 1985
(b) 1986
(c) 1889
(d) 1988
Question’s Answer: 1988
Which novel is not written by Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) Twilight in Delhi
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twilight in Delhi
How many novels were written by Hardy between his first success with “Far From the Madding Crowd” and the publication of “Jude the Obscure”?
(a) Eleven
(b) Ten
(c) Twelve
(d) Thirteen
Question’s Answer: Eleven
The “Return of The Native” by Hardy was published in which year?
(a) 1881
(b) 1879
(c) 1880
(d) 1878
Question’s Answer: 1878
Which is not a novel by Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) Under the Greenwood Tree
(c) The Mill on the Floss
Question’s Answer: The Mill on the Floss
Who among the following is novelist?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Eliot
(c) Browning
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
“Young Thomas Hardy” by Robert Grittings was published in which year?
(a) 1974
(b) 1977
(c) 1976
(d) 1975
Question’s Answer: 1975
Hardy married his secretary Florence Dugdale in:
(a) 1912
(b) 1914
(c) 1913
(d) 1915
Question’s Answer: 1914
Far From the “Madding Crowd” was proudly written by:
(a) James Joyce
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) George Eliot
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
The moral choice is everything in the works of:
(a) Dickens
(b) Hardy
(c) Eliot
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hardy
Which novel is written by Thomas Hardy?
(a) To the Light House
(b) Heart of Darkness
(c) Things Fall Apart
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Things Fall Apart
Which was the last novel of Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) The Mayor of Caster Bridge
(c) The Return of The Native
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Jude the Obscure
“The Mayor of Caster bridge” is a:
(a) Fairy Tale
(b) Poem
(c) Novel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Novel
“The older Hardy” written by Robert Grittings was published in which year?
(a) 1979
(b) 1980
(c) 1978
(d) 1981
Question’s Answer: 1978
Who is the hero of Hardy’s novel “Jude the Obscure”?
(a) Jude
(b) Alec
(c) Clare
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Jude
Thomas Hardy was born in:
(a) 1843
(b) 1841
(c) 1842
(d) 1840
Question’s Answer: 1840
Who is the heroine of Hardy’s novel “Jude the Obscure”?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Sue
(c) Tess
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Sue
Thomas Hardy was the son of a:
(a) Clerk
(b) Master Stone Mason
(c) Writer
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Master Stone Mason
Which is not a novel by Thomas Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) The Poor Man And the Lady
(c) Hard Times
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hard Times
Hardy was apprenticed to John Hicks,a local architect at the age of:
(a) Seventeen
(b) Sixteen
(c) Eighteen
(d) Nineteen
Question’s Answer: Sixteen
After getting education from village school, Hardy was educated at:
(a) Oxford
(b) Dorchester
(c) Cambridge
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Dorchester
Thomas Hardy was first educated at:
(a) Village School
(b) Home
(c) College
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Village School
Thomas Hardy was a:
(a) Novelist
(b) Poet
(c) Essayist
(d) Both (a) & (b)
Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)
Hardy moved to London in:
(a) 1860
(b) 1864
(c) 1863
(d) 1862
Question’s Answer: 1862
“The Poor Man and the Lady” was Hardy’s:
(a) Second Novel
(b) First Novel
(c) Last Novel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: First Novel
Which is not a novel by Hardy?
(a) The Return of the Native
(b) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(c) Great Expectations
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Great Expectations
Hardy met his would-be wife Emma in:
(a) 1871
(b) 1869
(c) 1870
(d) 1868
Question’s Answer: 1868
“Jude the Obscure” is a novel written by:
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) George Eliot
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
The novel “Far From the Madding Crowd” by Hardy was published in which year?
(a) 1873
(b) 1875
(c) 1874
(d) 1876
Question’s Answer: 1874
Thomas Hardy won the “RIBA Essay Prize” in:
(a) 1861
(b) 1863
(c) 1862
(d) 1864
Question’s Answer: 1862
“Under the Green Wood Tree” novel is written by:
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) James Joyce
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thomas Hardy
Which is not a novel by Hardy?
(a) Mrs. Dalloway
(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Desperate Remedies
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Dalloway
Hardy won the “Institute’s Prize” and medal in:
(a) 1862
(b) 1865
(c) 1864
(d) 1863
Question’s Answer: 1863
Hardy’s first work was published in Chamber’s journal in March:
(a) 1868
(b) 1866
(c) 1867
(d) 1865
Question’s Answer: 1865
Hardy had become agnostic by the age of:
(a) Twenty-five
(b) Twenty-eight
(c) Twenty-seven
(d) Twenty-nine
Question’s Answer: Twenty-seven
Hardy’s “Desperate Remedies” was published in which year?
(a) 1870
(b) 1873
(c) 1872
(d) 1871
Question’s Answer: 1871
Hardy returned to Dorchester as an assistant to his old principal, Mr.Hicks in:
(a) 1865
(b) 1866
(c) 1868
(d) 1867
Question’s Answer: 1867
Thomas Hardy Basic info
Full Name | Thomas Hardy |
Born | June 2, 1840 |
Died | January 11, 1928 |
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Novelist, Poet |
Literary Period | Victorian, Modernism |
Famous Works | “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”, “Far From the Madding Crowd”, “Jude the Obscure”, “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, “The Return of the Native” |
Notable Themes | Fate, determinism, rural life, social class, human relationships |
Literary Style | Realism, naturalism, use of regional settings, tragic plots |
Influences | Victorian literature, Romanticism, Greek tragedy |
Thomas Hardy Books names
Far from the Madding Crowd | 1874 |
The Return of the Native | 1878 |
The Mayor of Casterbridge | 1886 |
Tess of the d’Urbervilles | 1891 |
Jude the Obscure | 1895 |
The Woodlanders | 1887 |
Under the Greenwood Tree | 1872 |
The Trumpet-Major | 1880 |
A Pair of Blue Eyes | 1873 |
The Dynasts | 1904 |