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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. With whom does Mr. Brooke stop to talk while touring his estate?
(a) Cadwallader.
(b) Casaubon.
(c) Dagley.
(d) Bulstrode.

2. What does Will call Lowick?
(a) Palace.
(b) Punishment.
(c) Paradise.
(d) Prison.

3. The men on the board of the hospital meet to vote on the new chaplain. The vote is a tie between which characters?
(a) Cadwallader and Farebrother.
(b) Tyke and Cadwallader.
(c) Cadwallader, Farebrother, and Tyke.
(d) Tyke and Farebrother.

4. What does Mrs. Vincy hope Fred will do?
(a) Become a doctor.
(b) Go into politics.
(c) Travel abroad.
(d) Inherit Stone Court.

5. Though he does not pursue a career in it, Will admires which subject?
(a) Writing.
(b) Art.
(c) Music.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is concerned for Dorothea's health?

2. Who is the cosigner for one of Fred's debts?

3. How many wills are read after Featherstone's funeral?

4. Who asks Bulstrode to try to convince Lydgate not to marry Rosamond?

5. What position does Farebrother hold in town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens as Mr. Brooke and Dorothea are touring Tipton?

3. What are the objections that the men of Middlemarch express about the way Lydgate practices medicine?

4. Why does Casaubon propose to Dorothea?

5. How do Mr. Brooke and Casaubon feel about Ladislaw in Chapter 37?

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

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

8. What are the gossiping women of Middlemarch saying about Rosamond in Chapter 31?

9. Why is Dorothea saddened while on her honeymoon?

10. What do Fred and Peter Stonehouse fight about?

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