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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter 23 begins Book Three. What is the title of this book?
(a) "In Joy and Sorrow."
(b) "Waiting for Death."
(c) "'Til Death Do Us Part."
(d) "For Richer or Poorer."

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

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

5. What rumor actually helps Lydgate's reputation, no matter how much he denies its veracity?
(a) He has a magical scalpel.
(b) He studied medicine in Paris.
(c) He cured a tumor.
(d) He treated the Pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bulstrode tell Lydgate he wants to resign from overseeing the hospital?

2. Who comes to visit Bulstrode after Lydgate leaves?

3. Dover, the man to whom Lydgate owes many of his debts, has come to repossess what item(s) belonging to Lydgate?

4. Fred is most upset that the debt he owes to Mr. Garth has hurt whom?

5. Why does this character visit Lydgate?

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