Thomas Hardy MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

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


Thomas Hardy basic info
Thomas Hardy basic info

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


Thomas Hardy books names
Thomas Hardy books names

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