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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the funeral service held?
(a) Freshitt.
(b) Lowick.
(c) Tipton.
(d) Stone Court.

2. Whom does Mr. Brooke hire to write his speeches?
(a) Casaubon.
(b) Lydgate.
(c) Bulstrode.
(d) Will Ladislaw.

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

4. Why does Mr. Brooke refuse to talk politics with his guest?
(a) His guest is rude.
(b) His guest is uneducated.
(c) His guest is lower-class.
(d) His guest is a woman.

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

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

7. Why does Chettam recommend Lydgate to Dorothea?
(a) He likes Casaubon and pities him.
(b) He has a vested interest in Lydgate's success.
(c) Lydgate pays him for referrals.
(d) He feels a brotherly sympathy for Dorothea.

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

9. The setting of Chapter 28 is where?
(a) Tipton Grange.
(b) Lowick Manor.
(c) Stone Court.
(d) Freshitt Manor.

10. Who is the sole inheritor of Stone Court?
(a) Will Ladislaw.
(b) Fred Vincy.
(c) Lydgate.
(d) Joshua Rigg.

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

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

13. What happens to Fred after he visits Mary?
(a) He dies.
(b) He gets injured.
(c) He falls ill.
(d) He gets robbed.

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

15. Where is Dorothea at the beginning of Chapter 39?
(a) Freshitt.
(b) Stone Court.
(c) Tipton.
(d) Lowick.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dorothea and Casaubon argue over what in Chapter 19?

2. Whom does Mr. Lydgate admire?

3. Who delivers the letter to Featherstone?

4. What does Mr. Garth receive in the mail?

5. Lydgate and Rosamond agree that one of the drawbacks of living in a rural area is that there are so few good:

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