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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sir Chettam offer to Dorothea as a gift?
(a) A box of chocolates.
(b) A Maltese puppy.
(c) A diamond ring.
(d) A silk scarf.

2. What was Casaubon and Dorothea's first argument about?
(a) Having children.
(b) Their honeymoon.
(c) Dorothea's education.
(d) Wedding plans.

3. Caleb Vincy is what relation of Fred?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Brother.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Father.

4. What endeavor is the banker sponsoring?
(a) A community theatre.
(b) A new hospital.
(c) A school.
(d) The mayor's campaign.

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

6. Who arrives at Tipton Grange just as Casaubon is leaving?
(a) Mr. Brooke.
(b) Celia.
(c) Sir Chettam.
(d) Mrs. Cadwallader.

7. Lydgate and Rosamond agree that one of the drawbacks of living in a rural area is that there are so few good:
(a) Doctors.
(b) Writers.
(c) Cooks.
(d) Musicians.

8. Whom does Mr. Brooke hire to write his speeches?
(a) Will Ladislaw.
(b) Casaubon.
(c) Bulstrode.
(d) Lydgate.

9. Why does this character visit Lydgate?
(a) To give him news of his family.
(b) To obtain medical care.
(c) To collect a debt.
(d) To pledge an annual gift to the new hospital.

10. What does Will Ladislaw bring to the funeral?
(a) The portrait of the Casaubons in Rome.
(b) His friend from Rome.
(c) Flowers for the family of the deceased.
(d) His fiancee.

11. Fred Vincy is what relation of Rosamond?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her cousin.

12. Will Ladislaw is what relation of Casaubon?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His brother.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His son.

13. What about Lydgate is seen as scandalous by the other doctors in Middlemarch?
(a) His lack of thorough examination.
(b) His desire to autopsy corpses.
(c) The shabbiness of his office.
(d) His level of care.

14. In the Prelude, the author describes the life of what saint?
(a) Saint Christopher.
(b) Saint Theresa.
(c) Saint John.
(d) Saint Mary.

15. What does Mr. Vincy want Bulstrode to do?
(a) Loan him money.
(b) Write a letter.
(c) Come to dinner.
(d) Pay him back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies on a dreary May day?

2. Whom does Mr. Lydgate admire?

3. Regarding Dorothea, Sir Chettam seeks whose counsel?

4. What does Will call Lowick?

5. Where is Dorothea at the beginning of Chapter 39?

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