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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 70-72.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Farebrother reveals that Fred plans to study to become what?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Clergyman.
(d) Banker.

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

3. Why does Mrs. Bulstrode think Lydgate should not marry Rosamond?
(a) There is something sinister about Lydgate that Rosamond does not know.
(b) He/she admires Lydgate.
(c) Lydgate's social standing is not high enough.
(d) He/she admires Rosamond.

4. Why does Sir James Chettam come to the dinner party at Tipton Grange?
(a) To court Celia.
(b) To steal from the Brookes.
(c) To court Dorothea.
(d) To discuss business with Mr. Brooke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wills are read after Featherstone's funeral?

2. What does Will want to do in the future?

3. Raffles tells Ladislaw that his mother left her family to become what?

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

5. The author compares the deceased's relatives to what animals?

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