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Author - Thomas Hardy 0001

Before embarking upon a literary career Thomas Hardy planned to become an architect and indeed he won prizes in this field. Had he pursued architecture then we might never have had Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'urbervilles.

  1. Hardy was born in 1840 in which English county?

  2. In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for how much?

  3. What was Hardy's father's profession?

  4. What was the title of Hardy's first volume of poetry, published in 1898?

  5. In Jude the Obscure, what is Jude's surname?

  6. Who played Bathsheba Everdene in the 1967 film version of Far from the Madding Crowd?

  7. What is the name of the feeble-minded young man in Under the Greenwood Tree?

  8. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, what name does Tess give to her illegitimate son?

  9. The Return of the Native begins when?

  10. Before moving to London in 1862, Hardy trained as what?

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