JUDE THE OBSCURE – OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1.      Jude the Obscure opens with the departure of school master from the villate Mary Green. His name is…………..

2.      Who advised Jude “Be a good boy remember and be kind to animal and read all you can”?

3.      Jude’s village is ……..

4.      Robert Phillotson left his village for the university city………

5.      Drosilla Fawley is Jude’s ……..

6.      Name the quack-doctor who earns his living by befooling simple cottagers……

7.      Arabella Don is daughter of a ………..

8.      After her marriage with Jude Arabella leaves Jude and migrates to ………

9.      Sue worked as a …………in Lumsdon.

10.  Why did Sue decide to marry Phillotson?

11.  Little Father Time was born to Arabella by?

12.  Who is the heroine of Jude the Obscure?

13.  Where did Sue get training for teacher?

14.  The novel Jude the Obscure is called……….

15.  Who says “husbands are only economical security”?

16.  Jude’s ambition is to become a …….

17.  Full name of Jude is ………..

18.  Hardy was awarded Order of Merit in ……….

19.  Hardy’s novels are called…….

20.  Hardy believed in the Philosophy of ………..

21.  Hardy’s chief pro-occuptation in his work with………..

22.  Jude Fawley, the novel’s protagonist, longs to become a ………… circumstances force him instead to become a ………….

23.  How does Arabella trap Jude into marrying her the first time?

24.  On their wedding night, what physical attribute of Arabella does Jude discover to be false?

25.  Where does Jude first see Sue?

26.  What statues does Sue buy from the street vendor?

27.  How are Jude and Sue related?

28.  Who introduces Sue to Phillotson?

29.  Where does Jude encounter Arabella for the first time since she has left him?

30.  What event causes Phillotson to consent to Sue’s desire to leave him for Jude?

31.  Why does Arabella grant Jude a divorce?

32.  According to the legend told by the Widow Edlin, what happened to Jude’s and Sue’s common ancestor?

33.  Why does not Sue want to marry Jude, even after they are already living together?

34.  Why is Drusilla opposed to Jude marrying?

35.  On what special day do Jude, Sue, and their family return to Christminster?

36.  What happens to Jude’s three oldest children?

37.  How does Sue react to the fates of her children?

38.  According to Jude, what are his two greatest weaknesses?

39.  On the eve of her second marriage to Phillotson, what does the Widow Edlin advise Sue?

40.  How does Arabell get Jude to marry her the second time?

41.  What is Sue’s fate?

42.  When Arabella discovers that Jude is dead, which of these does she do first?

43.  Which character utters the last lines of the novel?

44.  Which was Hardy’s first novel?

45.  Which novel of Hardy has a chapter in which a man sells his wife?

46.  In which year Hardy announced that he would not write fiction again?

47.  Who is Jude Fawley’s cousin in Jude?

48.  Which novel of Hardy first gained notice?

49.  Who conferred the Order of Merit on Hardy?

50.  When was Wessex Tales published?

ANSWERS:

1	Richard Phillotson
2.	Robert Phillotson
3.	Marygreen
4.	Christminster
5.	Aunt
6.	Vilbert
7.	Pig-breeder
8.	Australia
9.	Assistant teacher
10.	Jude did not tell his marriage Arabella, earlier
11.	Jude
12.	Sue Bridehead
13.	Melchester
14.	A deadly war between flesh and blood
15.	Arabella
16.	Scholar
17.	Jude Fawley
18.	1910
19.	Wessex novels
20.	Immanent will
21.	Man’s unequal struggle with the fate
22.	Scholar; stonemason
23.	She feigns pregnancy.
24.	Her hair
25.	In a portrait owned by his aunt Drusila
26.	Venus and Apollo
27.	They are cousins.
28.	Jude
29.	At a bar in Christminster
30.	Sue jumps out of a window to escape Phillotson
31.	She wants to marry another man.
32.	He was hanged
33.	She feels it will destroy their happiness
34.	Because their family has bad luck with marriage
35.	Remembrance Day
36.	They commit suicide
37.	She renounces her ties to Jude
38.	Women and alcohol
39.	Not to marry Phillotson
40.	She gets him drunk
41.	She consummates her marriage with Phillotson
42.	She goes to see the boat races
43.	Arabella
44.	The poor man and the lady
45.	The Mayor of Casterbridge
46.	1896
47.	Sue Bridehead
48.	Far from the Madding Crowd
49.	George V
50.	1912