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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lydgate tells Farebrother that all finances result from what?
(a) Determination.
(b) Inherited wealth.
(c) Luck.
(d) Hard work.

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) Farebrother.
(c) Rosamond.
(d) Lydgate.

3. Who visits Rosamond as a friend but then upsets her, causing her to stay in bed, claiming illness?
(a) Dorothea.
(b) Mary Garth.
(c) Mrs. Bulstrode.
(d) Ladislaw.

4. What does Lydgate prescribe for Raffles' treatment?
(a) Opium.
(b) Quinine.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Iodine.

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

6. What ailment is affecting John Raffles while he resides at Stone Court?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Alcohol poisoning.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Tumors.

7. Who goes to talk Dorothea out of marrying Ladislaw?
(a) Celia.
(b) Mr. Brooke.
(c) Lydgate.
(d) Sir Chettam.

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

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

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

11. Who comes to visit Bulstrode after Lydgate leaves?
(a) Ladislaw.
(b) Raffles.
(c) Casaubon.
(d) Fred Vincy.

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

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

14. Who does Rosamond ask to help her and Lydgate move?
(a) Her nephew.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her uncle.

15. What event is attended by most of Middlemarch?
(a) The Larcher auction.
(b) The election.
(c) A hanging.
(d) The county fair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fred ask of Farebrother at the beginning of Chapter 52?

2. Who is implicated in Raffles' death?

3. What condition affects Rosamond in Chapter 47?

4. Dover, the man to whom Lydgate owes many of his debts, has come to repossess what item(s) belonging to Lydgate?

5. Who assures Ladislaw that everything has been cleared with Dorothea?

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