The Return of The Native Thomas Hardy MCQs Elective Core English BSc Hons

Question. The reddleman in The Return of the Native is :-
(a) Diggory Venn
(b) Clym Yeobright
(c) Johnny Nonsuch
(d) Damon WIldeve

Question. The Queen of Night is :-
(a) Thomasin Yeobright
(b) Eustacia Vye
(c) Mrs Yeobright
(d) Susan Nonsuch

Question. In Chapter One of The Return of the Native, what does Hardy describe the “enemy” of the heath?
(a) Industry
(b) Civilization
(c) The furze cutter
(d) Time

Question. What does the reddleman have in his cart at the opening of the novel, The Return of the Native?
(a) A dog
(b) Untold Riches
(c) A woman
(d) A trophy

Question. Clym at the end of the novel becomes :-
(a) A teacher
(b) A gardener
(c) A preacher
(d) A reddleman

Question. Who attempts to commit suicide in The Return of the Native?
(a) EustaciaVye
(b) ClymYeobright
(c) Diggory Venn
(d) Damon Wildeve

Question. The Clyms live in
(a) Mistover-Klap
(b) Budmouth
(c) Blooms End
(d) Alderworth

Question. What was Clym Yeobright’s occupation in Paris?
(a) School teacher
(b) Diamond Merchant
(c) Banker
(d) Priest

Question. The Native in Thomas Hardy’s novel is :-
(a) Diggory Venn
(b) Clym Yeobright
(c) Johnny Nonsuch
(d) Damon Wildeve

Question. The person who is returning from Paris in a few months for Christmas is :-
(a) Diggory Venn
(b) Johnny Nonsuch
(c) Damon Wildeve
(d) Clym Yeobright

Question. Eustacia Vye longs to be
(a) A big city girl
(b) A rich man’s wife
(c) An actress
(d) A witch

Question. The untameable nighttime heath is symbolized by:-
(a) Susan Nonsuch
(b) Thomasin Yeobright
(c) Eustacia Vye
(d) Mrs Yeobright

Question11. On the night of the departure of Damon and Eustacia
(a) The two end up drowning
(b) The two end up fighting
(c) The two end up being murdered
(d) The two end up getting poisoned

Question. What is the name of Mrs Yeobright’s House?
(a) Howard’s end
(b) Mistover Knapp
(c) Alderworth
(d) Bloom’s End

Question. Mrs Yeobright is :-
(a) Kind and loving
(b) Sour and bitter
(c) Manipulative and deceitful
(d) Greedy and selfish

Question. The fateful day on which the novel The Return of the Native started is :-
(a) November 5th
(b) November 10th
(c) November 16th
(d) November 20th

Question. Where is the novel The Return of the Native set?
(a) Budworth Heath
(b) Bodmin
(c) The Quite Woman Inn
(d) Egdon Heath

Question. Who wore the appearance of an installment of night which had taken up its place before its astronomical hour?
(a) The Heath
(b) Wildeve
(c) ClymYeobright
(d) Charley

Question. Eustacia marries
(a) Clym Yeobright
(b) Damon Wildeve
(c) Diggory Venn
(d) Little Pete

Question. What is described as “Eustacia’s great desire” in The Return of the Native?
(a) To have a baby
(b) To be loved to madness
(c) To send men mad
(d) To dance until weightless

Question. How does Diggory come to overhear Eustacia and Wildeve on the heath?
(a) He follows Wildeve
(b) He reads their letters
(c) He waits each night for their meeting
(d) They are outside his van

Question. The Return of the Native was first published in
(a) 1872
(b) 1874
(c) 1876
(d) 1878

Question. What title does Hardy give Eustacia Vye?
(a) Empress of Despair
(b) Duchess of the Heath
(c) Queen of Night
(d) Lady of Passion

Question. How does Diggory Venn obtain the inheritance money from Damon Wildeve?
(a) He steals it while Damon is asleep
(b) They draw lots for it
(c) He wins it at dice
(d) He robs Damon at gunpoint

Question. On what day does the story begin in Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native?
(a) November 5th
(b) Halloween
(c) Christmas Day
(d) October 13th

Question. Egdon Heath is a gloomy wasteland in
(a) Southern England
(b) Northern England
(c) Eastern England
(d) Western England

Question. Who is described as a “lady – killer” in The Return of the Native?
(a) Diggory Venn
(b) Damon Wildeve
(c) ClymYeobright
(d) Charley

Question. Who said this?
“O, I could live in a street for a world; Egdon is a ridiculous old place: but I have got used to it and I could not be happy anywhere else at all”.
(a) Wildeve
(b) ClymYeobright
(c) Thomasin
(d) EustaciaVye

Question. The Return of the Native was first published in __________

Question. “Tell her you have seen a broken hearted woman cast off by her son”, is said by ______.

Question. _______ was known as a lady-killer in Return of the Native.

Question. The name of Damon Wildeve’s inn is ______.

Question. Clym Yeobright returned from ______ to his native home.

Question. Captain Drew was Eustacia’s _________________

Question. When Thomasin is found in the reddleman’s van, she was on her way from ____________

Question. Diggory Venn is in love with _______

Question. For Clym Yeobright _______________was home and a place to be loved

Question. Clym Yeobright’s occupation in Paris was a ______

Question. Hardy gave an account of Eustacia’s parents and said her father was a fine ____________

Question. In Hardy’s novel, The Return of The Native, Eustacia’s great dream is to move to_______

Question. Hardy gives Eustacia the title ______________.

Question. The heath is comforting for ____________________ in The Return of the Native.

Question. In The Return of the Native,the heath is ugly for ____________________

Question. Hardy’s writing discarded the social mores of the ____________ er(a)

Question. The Return of the Native is set in ________

Question. ____________continues to love Thomasin even after her marriage with Wildeve.

Question. ClymYeobright loves _________ as much as Eustacia hates it.

Question. Eustacia marries ___________