Joan and John Durbeyfield

Question 1

“the pair of legs that carried him were

Answer 1

rickety and there was a bias in his gait”

Question 2

“the Durbeyfield household chose to

Answer 2

sail into difficulty, disaster, starvation, disease, degradation, death”

Question 3

“if ‘twere the doing again,

Answer 3

I wouldn’t let her go till I had found out whether the gentleman is really a good-hearted young man”

Question 4

“here have I been knocking about,

Answer 4

year after year, from pillar to post, as if I were no more than the commonest fellar in the parish”

Question 5

“why didn’t ye think of

Answer 5

doing something good for your family instead o’ thinking only of yourself?”

Question 6

“Mrs Durbeyfield began shedding tears

Answer 6

on her own account as a mother to be pitied”

Question 7

“I’m thinking of sending round to

Answer 7

all the old antiqueerians asking them to subscribe to a fund to maintain me”