The Grammardog Guide to The Mayor of Casterbridgecontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the novel by Thomas Hardy are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Figurative language includes examples of Naturalism ("his lie had been the last desperate throw of a gamester," "you are the door through which wrong has come to me," "Time, the magician, had wrought much here"). Allusions include history, mythology, religion, literature and Naturalism (Hadrian, Constantine, Calpurnia, Faust, Romeo, Robinson Crusoe, Ovid, Aphrodite, Achilles, Jacob, Cain, Saul, sheer luck, malignant star, the hands of Time).
