1. 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
2. In which of the novels Hardy says, “Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain”?
(A) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(B) Tess
(C) Jude the Obscure
(D) Return of the Native
3. In which of Hardy’s novels does the scene of a wife’s auction take place?
(A) Jude the Obscure
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(D) Return of the Native
4. 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
5. Whom does Tess kill in an emotional fury?
(A) Alec D’ Urberville
(B) Clym
(C) Angel Clare
(D) Michael Henchard
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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
10. Hardy was honoured with which of the following?
(A) Order of Merit
(B) Knighthood
(C) Honorary Degree of Doctorate
(D) The Nobel Prize
