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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bulstrode's occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Banker.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Sheriff.

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

3. What does Will Ladislaw bring to the funeral?
(a) Flowers for the family of the deceased.
(b) His fiancee.
(c) The portrait of the Casaubons in Rome.
(d) His friend from Rome.

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

5. Who delivers the letter to Featherstone?
(a) Mary.
(b) Bulstrode.
(c) Fred.
(d) Dorothea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sir Chettam offer to Dorothea as a gift?

2. The setting of Chapter 19 is where?

3. To pay off his debts, Fred decides to sell what?

4. Caleb Vincy is what relation of Fred?

5. With whom does Mr. Brooke stop to talk while touring his estate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lydgate visit Lowick in Chapter 42?

2. Compare and contrast the Brooke sisters.

3. What reasons does Ladislaw give Naumann for being tired of art lessons?

4. What causes Rosamond to wonder if she should be jealous of Lydgate's meeting with Dorothea?

5. Why does the author choose to write this novel?

6. What happens when Sir Chettam goes to see Mr. Cadwallader?

7. How is Dorothea when she returns from her honeymoon?

8. Casaubon admits to himself that he chose to marry Dorothea for what reasons?

9. What does Rosamond admire about Lydgate?

10. What are the reasons Mary Garth gives Fred for refusing to marry him? What is Fred's response?

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