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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bulstrode tell Lydgate he wants to resign from overseeing the hospital?
(a) His declining health.
(b) He thinks Lydgate would do a better job.
(c) He wants more time to pursue his political career.
(d) It is too much work.

2. What does Will call Lowick?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Palace.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Prison.

3. What does Bulstrode ask Mr. Garth to do after Bulstrode leaves town?
(a) To loan Bulstrode money.
(b) To give Bulstrode Mary Garth's hand in marriage.
(c) To become a financier for the hospital.
(d) To find a live-in tenant to oversee Stone Court.

4. Who comes to visit Bulstrode after Lydgate leaves?
(a) Fred Vincy.
(b) Raffles.
(c) Ladislaw.
(d) Casaubon.

5. What does Lydgate think is the real reason for Bulstrode's resignation?
(a) It is too much work.
(b) The operational cost of the hospital.
(c) Bulstrode thinks Lydgate would do a better job.
(d) Bulstrode's declining health.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumor actually helps Lydgate's reputation, no matter how much he denies its veracity?

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

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

4. Lydgate compares himself to physicians of old who did what?

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

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