The Return of the Native

21 The novel” The Return of the Native” has been beautifully adorned with different characters males and females; primary female characters are Mrs. Yeobright, Eustacia, and …..

a) Sandy

b) Lydia

c) Nancy

d) Thomasin

22. Thomas Hardy beautifully describes characters in two ways; first, he describes them verbally; second, he describes them by their actions; for example, he describes a woman namely ………who is sternly judgemental and opinionated.

a) Eustacia

b) Mrs. Yeobright

c) Thomasin

d) Lydia

23. As the novel progresses, the readers fall in love with Thomas Hardy’s descriptive style; for example, he praises a woman namely……in mythological terms as the “queen of the night”.

a) Eustacia

b) Mrs.Yeobright

c) Thomasin

d) Nancy

24. Describing the history of ………… Thomas Hardy linked them with gypsies and criminals.

a) Beetleman

b) Cattlemen

c) Reddlemen 

d) Settlement

25. When Diggory Venn persuades Eustacia to leave Wildeve as he does not suitably match her; she proudly rejects his suggestion and also calls Thomasin a/an ……..woman.

a) Poor

b) Inferior 

c) Incomplete

d) Helpless

26. Mrs. Yeobright’s son Clym returns home to celebrate …….with his mother.

a) Christmas

b) Mumming

c) Wedding ceremony

d) Holidays

27. Reading the novel, a reader comes to know: earlier captain Vye denounces …..as rookery of pomp and vanity.

a) Stockholm

b) Sydney

c) Paris

d) Berlin

28. Eustacia falls in love with Clym; she dances with a……in her dream that night.

a) Prince

b) King  

c) Courtier  

d) Knight

29. Thomas Hardy describes ………..as a traditional holiday celebration of the Egon Heath people.

a) Mumming 

b) Expo

c) Clang

d) Drumming

30. Eustacia does not like Thomasin; she never wants ……reunite with Thomasin.

a) Wildeve

b) Clym

c) Charley

d)Susan