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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Casaubon live?
(a) Freshitt.
(b) Stone Court.
(c) Tipton Grange.
(d) Lowick.

3. With whom does Mr. Brooke stop to talk while touring his estate?
(a) Cadwallader.
(b) Bulstrode.
(c) Casaubon.
(d) Dagley.

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

5. Dorothea is awed and intimidated by what characteristic of Casaubon?
(a) His intellect.
(b) His wealth.
(c) His heritage.
(d) His size.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Vincys change their family doctor?

2. Lydgate's reputation is bolstered when his medical advice is sought by whom?

3. Why does Mr. Brooke refuse to talk politics with his guest?

4. Who discerns the reason for Lydgate's avoidance of Rosamond?

5. How does Featherstone feel about Mary giving up her savings?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mr. Brooke and Casaubon feel about Ladislaw in Chapter 37?

2. How do Lydgate and Rosamond, respectively, feel about marriage after their dinner together in Chapter 16?

3. What do Featherstone's two wills state?

4. Why do the Vincys get a new family doctor?

5. What is the purpose of Dorothea's first visit to Lowick? What happens there?

6. What causes Rosamond to wonder if she should be jealous of Lydgate's meeting with Dorothea?

7. Casaubon admits to himself that he chose to marry Dorothea for what reasons?

8. What happens on the night of Featherstone's death?

9. What are the objections that the men of Middlemarch express about the way Lydgate practices medicine?

10. What happens when Sir Chettam goes to see Mr. Cadwallader?

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