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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. Who dies on a dreary May day?
(a) Fred.
(b) Casaubon.
(c) Featherstone.
(d) Lydgate.

2. What is the subject of Chapter 40?
(a) Politics in Middlemarch.
(b) The changing season.
(c) The Garth family.
(d) Lydgate's proposal.

3. Who has the tie breaking vote for the chaplain's appointment?
(a) Mr. Brooke.
(b) Bulstrode.
(c) Lydgate.
(d) Cadwallader.

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

5. Where is the funeral service held?
(a) Lowick.
(b) Freshitt.
(c) Stone Court.
(d) Tipton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Garth receive in the mail?

2. Why do the gossiping women visit Rosamond?

3. What business does Mr. Brooke purchase?

4. Casaubon spends most of his honeymoon doing what?

5. What do the other doctors in Middlemarch do to earn extra money, which Lydgate refuses to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Lydgate and Rosamond, respectively, feel about marriage after their dinner together in Chapter 16?

3. What happens to Fred Vincy in Chapter 23?

4. What happens on the night of Featherstone's death?

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

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

7. Why does Casaubon propose to Dorothea?

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

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

10. What do Featherstone's two wills state?

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