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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 67-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dover, the man to whom Lydgate owes many of his debts, has come to repossess what item(s) belonging to Lydgate?
(a) Home.
(b) Horses.
(c) Furniture.
(d) Practice.

2. Where does Mrs. Garth get the money to cover Fred's debt?
(a) The sale of her artwork.
(b) Her own wages.
(c) Her husband's desk drawer.
(d) Her son's school fund.

3. Chapter 23 begins Book Three. What is the title of this book?
(a) "'Til Death Do Us Part."
(b) "For Richer or Poorer."
(c) "Waiting for Death."
(d) "In Joy and Sorrow."

4. Lydgate compares himself to physicians of old who did what?
(a) Used unsterilized instruments.
(b) Refused to treat poor patients.
(c) Exhumed corpses to study anatomy.
(d) Dissected animals.

5. Will and Adolf convince Dorothea and Casaubon to do what?
(a) End their honeymoon early.
(b) Sit for a portrait.
(c) Go with them to France.
(d) Loan them money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the other doctors in Middlemarch do to earn extra money, which Lydgate refuses to do?

2. What about Lydgate is seen as scandalous by the other doctors in Middlemarch?

3. Fred is most upset that the debt he owes to Mr. Garth has hurt whom?

4. When Lydgate asks Bulstrode for a loan, what is Bulstrode's response?

5. Why does this character visit Lydgate?

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