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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who seeks out Lydgate at the beginning of Chapter 43?
(a) Mr. Brooke.
(b) Casaubon.
(c) Dorothea.
(d) Rosamond.

2. When Lydgate asks Bulstrode for a loan, what is Bulstrode's response?
(a) He demands that Lydgate offer the deed to his house as collateral.
(b) He suggests that Lydgate consider bankruptcy.
(c) He reluctantly agrees to loan Lydgate the thousand pounds he needs.
(d) He asks for a day to consider.

3. Will and Adolf convince Dorothea and Casaubon to do what?
(a) Loan them money.
(b) End their honeymoon early.
(c) Sit for a portrait.
(d) Go with them to France.

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

5. What do the other doctors in Middlemarch do to earn extra money, which Lydgate refuses to do?
(a) Practice veterinary medicine.
(b) Prescribe unnecessary medications.
(c) Experiment on human test subjects.
(d) Write articles for questionable publications.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does this character visit Lydgate?

3. What does Will call Lowick?

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

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

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