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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Dorothea when she becomes a widow?
(a) 19.
(b) 32.
(c) 26.
(d) 21.

2. Who rebukes Fred's gambling habit and implores him to behave in a manner that makes him worthy of Mary Garth?
(a) Mr. Garth.
(b) Lydgate.
(c) Rosamond.
(d) Farebrother.

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

4. What does Lydgate give Rosamond to help her feel better?
(a) Iodine.
(b) A mild sedative.
(c) Quinine.
(d) Brandy.

5. Who vows support of Lydgate and claims they do not believe the accusations against him?
(a) Bulstrode.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Rosamond.
(d) Fred Vincy.

6. How many children do Mary and Fred have?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

7. With whom does Ladislaw become friends?
(a) Fred Vincy.
(b) Casaubon.
(c) Lydgate.
(d) Rosamond.

8. What has changed for Celia by the time of Casaubon's death?
(a) She has had a baby.
(b) She is in poor health.
(c) She is divorced.
(d) She is widowed.

9. What does Lydgate think is the real reason for Bulstrode's resignation?
(a) It is too much work.
(b) Bulstrode's declining health.
(c) Bulstrode thinks Lydgate would do a better job.
(d) The operational cost of the hospital.

10. To make his problems go away, Lydgate has tried what?
(a) Opium.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) All answers are correct.

11. To whom does Rosamond write, asking for money?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Lydgate's relative.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

12. To what other character does the author compare Dorothea in Chapter 85?
(a) Ophelia of Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
(b) Rebekah of the Bible.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Faithful of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."

13. Who dines with Farebrother, his mother, and his aunt?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Lydgate.
(c) Ladislaw.
(d) Lydgate and Rosamond.

14. Raffles tells Ladislaw that his mother left her family to become what?
(a) An actress.
(b) A writer.
(c) A student.
(d) An artist.

15. Who tells Mrs. Bulstrode some of the details concerning the gossip about her husband?
(a) Mr. Vincy.
(b) Rosamond.
(c) Bulstrode.
(d) Mrs. Cadwallader.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rosamond raises how many children, alone?

2. Who has spent the week after the town meeting caring for her sick husband?

3. What does Bulstrode ask Mr. Garth to do after Bulstrode leaves town?

4. Who is implicated in Raffles' death?

5. When Dorothea goes out to find Casaubon, he is

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