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
