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1. Jude Fawley, the novel's protagonist, longs to become a __________. Circumstances force him instead to become a __________.
The correct answer was scholar; stonemason.
2. How does Arabella trap Jude into marrying her the first time?
The correct answer was she feigns pregnancy.
Hardy's treatment of the unhappy marriage of Jude and Arabella exemplifies an important theme in the novel: marriage as a trap. Hardy critiques the permanency of a contract negotiated due to a fleeting lust between two individuals. Soon after their marriage, Jude realizes that although the "transitory instinct" of sexual attraction had passed, "the marriage remained."
3. On their wedding night, what physical attribute of Arabella does Jude discover to be false?
The correct answer was her hair.
Jude learns that Arabella wears a hairpiece when she removes it in preparation for bed. He does not discover Arabella's ability to produce false dimples or her feigned pregnancy until later.

4. Where does Jude first see Sue?
The correct answer was in a portrait owned by his aunt Drusilla.
When Jude moves to Christminster, he asks his aunt to send the portrait to him. He later spies Sue at her place of employment and at church, and she comes to see him at the stonemason's yard. However, they do not actually converse until their arranged meeting on a street in Christminster.

5. What statues does Sue buy from the street vendor?
The correct answer was Venus and Apollo.
Sue's purchase of these figures significantly shows her appreciation of antiquity and her veneration of classical values rather than Christian teachings. To conceal the identities of the statues from her landlady, Sue lies that they are representations of Peter and Mary Magdalen. The opposition of philosophy and reason with Christian morality is a major theme of the novel.
6. How are Jude and Sue related?
The correct answer was they are cousins.
Jude and Sue both mention society's disapproval of cousins getting married.
7. Who introduces Sue to Phillotson?
The correct answer was Jude.
Phillotson was Jude's teacher in Marygreen. When Jude discovers Sue's desire to teach, he introduces her to Phillotson in Christminster.
8. Where does Jude encounter Arabella for the first time since she has left him?
The correct answer was at a bar in Christminster.
Jude finds Arabella working as a barmaid in Christminster when he accompanies an old friend to the bar for a drink. Depressed by the advent of Sue's recent marriage, Jude is tempted to drink at the bar, and is later seduced by Arabella.
9. What event causes Phillotson to consent to Sue’s desire to leave him for Jude?
The correct answer was Sue jumps out of a window to escape Phillotson.
When Sue first asks Phillotson if he will allow her to leave him, her husband refuses. It is only after Sue jumps out of her bedroom window when Phillotson accidentally enters the room that he lets her go to be with her lover.

10. Why does Arabella grant Jude a divorce?
The correct answer was she wants to marry another man.
While she is in Australia, Arabella meets another man. Believing Jude is dead, she and the Australian marry. She realizes a divorce will make her second marriage legal.

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

The correct answer was he was hanged.
The Widow Edlin recounts the story of Jude's and Sue's ancestor whose wife ran away from him, taking their child with her. The child died, and the husband attempted to steal the child's coffin from his wife's house. He was caught and hanged for burglary. Mrs. Edlin tells this story to illustrate why Sue's and Jude's family has always had bad luck with marriage.
12. Why doesn’t Sue want to marry Jude, even after they are already living together?
The correct answer was she feels it will destroy their happiness.
Sue believes, based partly on previous experience, that once two people are married their passion for each other dissolves: "'it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall be that person's lover.'" She thinks that marriage "'is destructive to a passion whose essence is its gratuitousness.'"
13. Why is Drusilla opposed to Jude marrying?
The correct answer was because their family has bad luck with marriage.
Drusilla spends her entire life unmarried, and advises against any member of her family marrying because none who have married have found happiness.
14. Little Father Time is the son of which couple?
The correct answer was Jude and Arabella.
Little Father Time is a product of their marriage, although Arabella does not tell Jude about their son for many years. The child spends the first years of his life in Australia with Arabella's family.
15. What event precipitates the marriage of Jude and Sue?
The correct answer was they never marry.
Although Jude and Sue comes close to legally marrying several times in the novel, Sue always changes her mind shortly before they go through the ceremony. Finally, the couple begin to tell people that they are legally married, even though they are not.



16. Choose the correct order of marriages and divorces as they occur in the novel.
The correct answer was Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella divorce, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella marry.
Jude and Arabella marry before Jude ever meets Sue. Jude is still legally married to Arabella when Sue and Phillotson marry. Jude's divorce from Arabella becomes final shortly before Sue's and Phillotson's divorce is made official. Years later, Sue returns to Phillotson and becomes his wife again, and urges Jude to remarry Arabella. Jude and Sue never marry, nor do Phillotson and Arabella.

17. On what special day do Jude, Sue, and their family return to Christminster?
The correct answer was Remembrance Day.
Remembrance Day, held at the University, honors graduating scholars. Hardy models the University at Christminster on Oxford University. The following year, Jude dies on Remembrance Day, after remembering his own failed ambitions.
18. What happens to Jude’s three oldest children?

The correct answer was they commit suicide.
After Sue reveals to Little Father Time that so many children make it difficult for the family to survive, he and the other two children hang themselves.
19. How does Sue react to the fates of her children?

The correct answer was she renounces her ties to Jude.
The deaths of the three oldest children, shortly followed by Sue's delivery of a stillborn, convince Sue that her life with Jude is immoral and cursed. She decides that she is still bound
20. According to Jude, what are his two greatest weaknesses?

The correct answer was women and alcohol.
Jude tells Sue that she is the only one who can keep him from his two "arch enemies."
21. On the eve of her second marriage to Phillotson, what does the Widow Edlin advise Sue?
The correct answer was not to marry Phillotson.
Mrs. Edlin tells Sue that she is making a mistake by marrying Phillotson, and that she should not marry him because she is still in love with Jude. However, she does not specifically tell Sue to go back to Jude.
22. How does Arabella get Jude to marry her the second time?

The correct answer was she gets him drunk.
Arabella manages to keep Jude so intoxicated that he is not thinking clearly. She then tells him that he promised to marry her, and believing her, he feels obligated to fulfill his word.
23. What is Sue’s fate?
The correct answer was she consummates her marriage with Phillotson.
Although Sue's and Phillotson's marriage is only nominal at first, Sue ultimately decides that the moral thing to do is to submit fully to her husband, even though he repulses her.
24. When Arabella discovers that Jude is dead, which of these does she do first?
The correct answer was she goes to see the boat races.
Arabella's selfish desire to see the boat races with her friends surpasses her duties toward her dead husband.
25. Which character utters the last lines of the novel?

The correct answer was Arabella.
Arabella's final assessment of Sue's fate, spoken as she and the Widow Edlin view Jude's body: "She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again till she's as he is now!"