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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) He wants more time to pursue his political career.
(b) He thinks Lydgate would do a better job.
(c) It is too much work.
(d) His declining health.

2. Dover, the man to whom Lydgate owes many of his debts, has come to repossess what item(s) belonging to Lydgate?
(a) Horses.
(b) Home.
(c) Furniture.
(d) Practice.

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

4. Why does this character visit Lydgate?
(a) To obtain medical care.
(b) To pledge an annual gift to the new hospital.
(c) To collect a debt.
(d) To give him news of his family.

5. To pay off his debts, Fred decides to sell what?
(a) Horse.
(b) Home.
(c) Carriage.
(d) Jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who comes to visit Bulstrode after Lydgate leaves?

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

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

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

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