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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author compares the deceased's relatives to what animals?
(a) Piranhas.
(b) Jackals.
(c) Vultures.
(d) Hyenas.

2. Where is Lydgate at the beginning of Chapter 42?
(a) Lowick.
(b) Tipton.
(c) Stone Court.
(d) Freshitt.

3. At Dorothea's behest, Mr. Brooke writes a letter inviting whom to Tipton Grange?
(a) Will Ladislaw.
(b) Sir Chettam.
(c) Bulstrode.
(d) Featherstone.

4. Dorothea chooses a room at Lowick that used to belong to which relative of Casaubon?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does this character visit Lydgate?

2. What relation is Celia to Dorothea?

3. What event is upcoming in Middlemarch at the beginning of Chapter 37?

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

5. Fred Vincy is what relation of Rosamond?

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