1. Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895 (though the title page says 1896). It is Hardy's last completed novel. The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man; he is a stonemason who dreams of becoming a _____?
A:) scholar
B:) Priest
C:) businessman
D:) writer
springline- Correct option: A:) scholar
2. Jude the Obscure ;The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England . As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. In Southern England which is a part of Hardy's fictional county of _____?
A:) England
B:) Wessex
C:) East- Midland
D:) Dorset
springline- Correct option: B:) Wessex
3. Jude the Obscure ; Jude ,While working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse, morally lax and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and Arabella leaves Jude and later emigrates to __?
A:) America
B:) England
C:) London
D:) Australia
springline- Correct option: D:) Australia
4. Jude the Obscure ; After Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later. There, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. But, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former schoolteacher, Mr. Phillotson, whom she eventually is persuaded to marry, despite the fact that he is some senior of______?
A:) eight years
B:) twenty years
C:) ten years
D:) twelve years
springline- Correct option: B:) twenty years
5. Jude the Obscure ; Arabella and Jude divorce and she legally marries her bigamous husband, and Sue also is divorced. However, following this, Arabella reveals that she had a child of Jude's, eight months after they separated, and subsequently sends this child to his father. He is named Jude and nicknamed ‘Little Father Time’ because of his lack of humour and intense______?
A:) sensibility
B:) wit
C:) seriousness
D:) foolishness
springline- Correct option: C:) seriousness
6. Jude the Obscure ; Jude eventually convinces Sue to sleep with him and, over the years, they have two children together and expect a third. But Jude and Sue are socially ostracised for living together unmarried, especially after the children are born. Arabella reappears having fled her Australian husband, who managed a hotel in _____?
A:) Mexico
B:) Sydney
C:) Turkey
D:) Christminster
springline- Correct option: B:) Sydney
7. Jude the Obscure ; Jude's employers dismiss him because of the illicit relationship, and the family is forced into a nomadic lifestyle, moving from town to town across Wessex seeking employment and housing before eventually returning to _______?
A:) Christminster
B:) Dorchester
C:) Australia
D:) Berkshire
springline- Correct option: A:) Christminster
8. Jude the Obscure ; Jude and Sue were socially troubled boy, ‘Little Father Time’, comes to believe that he and his half-siblings are the source of the family's woes. The morning after their arrival in Christminster, he murders Sue's two children and kills himself by hanging. He leaves behind a note that simply reads, ‘Done because we are too______?’
A:) Penny
B:) Menny
C:) Pokol
D:) Hades
springline- Correct option: B:) Menny
9. Jude the Obscure; Although horrified at the thought of resuming Sue’s marriage with Phillotson, she becomes convinced that, for religious reasons, she should never have left him. Who discovers Sue's feelings and informs Phillotson, and he soon proposes they remarry?
A:) Jude
B:) Servant
C:) Arabella
D:) Friend
springline- Correct option: C:) Arabella
10. When, Hardy began making notes for a story about a working-man's frustrated attempts to attend the university, perhaps inspired in part by the scholastic failure and suicide of his friend Horace Moule ?
A:) 1886
B:) 1887
C:) 1888
D:) 1889
springline- Correct option: B:) 1887
11. In 1895, The book was published in London under its present title, Jude the Obscure (dated 1896). In Hardy’s Preface to the first edition, Hardy provides details of the conception and writing history of the novel, claiming that certain details were inspired by the death of a woman , most likely his cousin______?
A:) Jemima
B:) George Meredith
C:) Tryphena Sparks
D:) Jack Grein
springline- Correct option: C:) Tryphena Sparks
12. Who is a Marxist critic , in his introduction to a 1974 edition of the text, refutes the conventional reading of the novel as 'the tragedy of an oversexed peasant boy', instead examining the social background of the text and proposing it as a conflict between ideal and reality ?
A:) Antonio Gramsci
B:) Louis Althusser
C:) Terry Eagleton
D:) Herbert Marcuse
springline- Correct option: C:) Terry Eagleton
13. Who commented, ‘They ought not to be allowed to set these steel traps, ought they?’ A reviewer compares the inevitable fate of the rabbit to marriage as ‘a permanent trap between two people’ from which there is no easy escape ?
A:) Jude
B:) Sue
C:) Arabella
D:) Mr. Phillotson
springline- Correct option: B:) Sue
14. Jude the Obscure; Jude and Sue are appalled at the use of steel traps to catch such small animals as rabbits, which usually died in slow agony when caught in the deadly contraptions. Jude was compelled to kill a trapped _____?
A:) cats
B:) rabbits
C:) pigs
D:) goat
springline- Correct option: B:) rabbits
15. Jude the Obscure; A minor theme is cruelty to animals. The novel has two incidents of cruelty to animals. In slaughtering the pig which Jude and Arabella had diligently fattened, it was necessary to obtain a better quality of meat that the animal be ‘well bled, and to do that pig must die slowly.’ Jude, however, a man of compassion and strong feelings, could not endure hearing the agony of the slow death of the___?
A:) pigs
B:) cats
C:) rabbits
D:) goats
springline- Correct option: A:) pigs
16. Jude plunged the knife into the animal to hasten its death: ‘The blood flowed out in a torrent instead of in the trickling stream Arabella had desired. The dying animal's cry assumed its third and final tone, the shriek of agony; his glazing eyes riveting themselves on Arabella with the eloquently keen reproach of a creature recognizing at last the treachery of those who had seemed his ______?
A:) friends
B:) niece
C:) wife
D:) stranger
springline- Correct option: A:) friends
17. Who was also very disapproving of Jude the Obscure, in part because of the book's criticisms of religion, but also because she worried that the reading public would believe that the relationship between Jude and Sue directly paralleled her strained relationship with Hardy (which, in a figurative sense, it did)?
A:) Anne
B:) Florence Dugdale
C:) Emily Dickenson
D:) Emma
springline- Correct option: D:) Emma
18. Another parallel between the book's characters and themes and Hardy's actual life experience occurs When Sue becomes obsessed with religion after previously having been indifferent and even hostile towards it ? Like Sue Bridehead, Hardy's first wife, Emma went from being _____?
A:) Priest
B:) free-spirited
C:) Nun
D:) Devotee
springline- Correct option: B:) free-spirited
19. Jude is therefore prevented from gaining economic mobility and getting out of the working class. This theme of unattainable education was personal for Hardy since he, like Jude, had not been able to afford to study for a degree at Oxford or Cambridge, in spite of his early interest in scholarship and _____ ?
A:) classics
B:) modern
C:) fellowship
D:) making money
springline- Correct option: A:) Classics
20. Hardy claimed that ‘no book he had ever written contained less of his own life’, contemporary reviewers found several parallels between the themes of the novel and Hardy's life as a working-class man of letters. The struggle against fixed class boundaries is an important link between the novel and Hardy's life, especially concerning higher education and the _____?
A:) religious
B:) isolation
C:) seriousness
D:) working class
springline- Correct option: D:) vworking class
21. Jude wishes to attend the university at Christminster, he cannot afford the costs involved in studying for a degree, and he lacks the rigorous training necessary to qualify for a _______?
A:) Scholarship
B:) Fellowship
C:) Social Class
D:) working class
springline- Correct option: B:) Fellowship
22. Several specific details about Jude's self-directed studies actually appear in Hardy's autobiography, including late-night Latin readings while working full-time as a stonemason and then as an architect. However, unlike Jude, Hardy's mother was well-read, and she educated Thomas until he went to his first school at Bockhampton at age eight, and he attended school in _______?
A:) Dorchester
B:) Wiltshire
C:) Somerset
D:) Devon
springline- Correct option: A:) Dorchester
23. Jude the Obscure ; The book has no universal value system or standard of morality, there is no black and white. Whatever the character believes in is what they pursue, whether or not it conflicts with the beliefs of another character. As an example of this, one can turn to Sue's final decision to leave Jude. In the final part of the novel, because of her new belief in _______?
A:) Religious
B:) Modernism
C:) Faith
D:) Love
springline- Correct option: A:) Religious
24. Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in ______?
A:) Britain
B:) England
C:) Sydney
D:) London
springline- Correct option: A:) Britain
25. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets particularly ________?
A:) the Georgians
B:) the victorian
C:) the Richardian
D:) England poets
springline- Correct option: A:) the Georgians
26. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in _____?
A:) Midland
B:) Southwest
C:) Southeast
D:) Sydney
springline- Correct option: B:) Southwest
27. Hardy never felt at home in London, because he was acutely conscious of class divisions and his social inferiority. During this time he became interested in social reform and the works of John Stuart Mill. He was introduced by his Dorset friend Horace Moule to the works of Charles Fourier and Auguste Comte. Whose essay On Liberty was one of Hardy's cures for despair, and in 1924 Hardy declared that ‘my pages show harmony of view with’ him?
A:) Walter de la Mare
B:) Robert Graves
C:) John Stuart Mill
D:) D.H. Lawrence
springline- Correct option: C:) John Stuart Mill
28. In Hardy’s later years, he kept a Wire Fox Terrier named Wessex, who was notoriously ill-tempered. Wessex's grave stone can be found on the Max Gate grounds. In 1910, Hardy had been appointed a Member of the Order of Merit and was also for the first time nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. How many years later he was again nominated for Noble Prize?
A:) ten years
B:) eleven years
C:) six years
D:) twelve years
springline- Correct option: B:) eleven years
29. Hardy was horrified by the destruction caused by the First World War, pondering that ‘I do not think a world in which such fiendishness is possible to be worth the saving’ and ‘better to let western 'civilization' perish, and let the black and yellow races have a chance.’ He wrote to Whom that ‘the exchange of international thought is the only possible salvation for the world ?
A:) John Galsworthy
B:) Walpole
C:) Harold Bloom
D:) George Peter
springline- Correct option: A:) John Galsworthy
30. D. H. Lawrence's Study of Thomas Hardy (1936) indicates the importance of Hardy for him, even though this work is a platform for Lawrence's own developing philosophy rather than a more standard literary study. The influence of Hardy's treatment of character, and Lawrence's own response to the central metaphysic behind many of Hardy's novels, helped significantly in the development of The Rainbow (1915) and _______?
A:) The Woodlanders
B:) Women in Love
C:) The Face of the Deep
D:) A Pair of Blue Eyes
springline- Correct option: B:) Women in Love