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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 85-86.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dorothea becomes upset when the Farebrother women talk about what?
(a) The gossip concerning Bulstrode.
(b) Rosamond's illness.
(c) Their fondness for Ladislaw.
(d) The gossip concerning Lydgate.

2. Bulstrode asks his wife's opinion on what issue?
(a) A business proposal.
(b) The progress of the hospital.
(c) His final will.
(d) Politics in Middlemarch.

3. What is the relationship between Edward Casaubon and Dorothea Brooke?
(a) Father and daughter.
(b) Husband and wife.
(c) Cousins.
(d) Uncle and niece.

4. Rosamond is jealous of the time Lydgate spends with whom?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Celia.
(c) Mrs. Cadwallader.
(d) Mary Garth.

5. Why does Mr. Brooke disapprove of Dorothea's engagement to Casaubon?
(a) He wants Dorothea to remain unmarried.
(b) He thinks Dorothea is too young to marry.
(c) He thinks Casaubon is too old.
(d) He wants Celia to marry before Dorothea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ladislaw refuse the money offered to him by Bulstrode?

2. To whom does Rosamond write, asking for money?

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

4. What is the cause for controversy in town, as of Chapter 56?

5. When Ladislaw's messenger arrives at Lowick, Dorothea is not there. Where is she?

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