Exercise 1

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by . It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century novel and possibly Hardy's masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the of late England.