Middlemarch | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Prelude and Chapters 1-3

1. In the Prelude, the author describes the life of what saint?

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

3. What relation is Celia to Dorothea?

4. Why does Sir James Chettam come to the dinner party at Tipton Grange?

5. What does Sir Chettam offer to Dorothea as a gift?

6. In the opening chapters, what is Dorothea's charitable project?

Short Answer Questions - Chapters 4-6

1. In the beginning of Chapter 4, from where are Dorothea and Celia returning?

2. What does Mr. Brooke show Dorothea upon her return to Tipton?

3. Why does Mr. Brooke disapprove of Dorothea's engagement to Casaubon?

4. Dorothea is awed and intimidated...
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