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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 do the other doctors in Middlemarch do to earn extra money, which Lydgate refuses to do?
(a) Experiment on human test subjects.
(b) Write articles for questionable publications.
(c) Prescribe unnecessary medications.
(d) Practice veterinary medicine.

2. To whom does Lydgate announce his marriage plans?
(a) Farebrother.
(b) Sir Chettam.
(c) Mr. Brooke.
(d) Casaubon.

3. What does Will want to do in the future?
(a) Get an education.
(b) Become a nobleman.
(c) Travel abroad.
(d) Learn a trade.

4. 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 Farebrother.
(c) Cadwallader, Farebrother, and Tyke.
(d) Tyke and Cadwallader.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dorothea is awed and intimidated by what characteristic of Casaubon?

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

3. Fred is most upset that the debt he owes to Mr. Garth has hurt whom?

4. The setting of Chapter 28 is where?

5. Who discerns the reason for Lydgate's avoidance of Rosamond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Fred Vincy in Chapter 23?

2. What do Featherstone's two wills state?

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

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

5. Why does Lydgate visit Lowick in Chapter 42?

6. What do Fred and Peter Stonehouse fight about?

7. After the reading of the will, how does Mr. Vincy feel about Rosamond's marrying Lydgate?

8. Why do the Vincys get a new family doctor?

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

10. How does the situation of the Garth family change in Chapter 40?

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