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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. In the opening chapters, what is Dorothea's charitable project?
(a) Tutoring schoolchildren.
(b) Volunteering at an orphanage.
(c) Raising money for hospitals.
(d) Designing cottages for the poor.

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

3. Where is Lydgate at the beginning of Chapter 42?
(a) Lowick.
(b) Stone Court.
(c) Freshitt.
(d) Tipton.

4. Who delivers the letter to Featherstone?
(a) Fred.
(b) Bulstrode.
(c) Mary.
(d) Dorothea.

5. Why does Chettam recommend Lydgate to Dorothea?
(a) Lydgate pays him for referrals.
(b) He has a vested interest in Lydgate's success.
(c) He feels a brotherly sympathy for Dorothea.
(d) He likes Casaubon and pities him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mary want to work?

2. Fred Vincy is what relation of Rosamond?

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

4. Chapter 23 begins Book Three. What is the title of this book?

5. What is the relationship between Edward Casaubon and Dorothea Brooke?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Ladislaw give Naumann for being tired of art lessons?

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

3. What are the reasons Mary Garth gives Fred for refusing to marry him? What is Fred's response?

4. Why does Casaubon propose to Dorothea?

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

6. After the reading of the will, how does Mr. Vincy feel about Rosamond's marrying Lydgate?

7. Why does Lydgate visit Lowick in Chapter 42?

8. What do Dorothea and Will talk about during Will's visit?

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

10. What are the gossiping women of Middlemarch saying about Rosamond in Chapter 31?

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