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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 seeks out Lydgate at the beginning of Chapter 43?
(a) Casaubon.
(b) Mr. Brooke.
(c) Rosamond.
(d) Dorothea.

2. What rumor actually helps Lydgate's reputation, no matter how much he denies its veracity?
(a) He studied medicine in Paris.
(b) He has a magical scalpel.
(c) He cured a tumor.
(d) He treated the Pope.

3. Why does this character visit Lydgate?
(a) To obtain medical care.
(b) To pledge an annual gift to the new hospital.
(c) To collect a debt.
(d) To give him news of his family.

4. How many wills are read after Featherstone's funeral?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies on a dreary May day?

2. What was Casaubon and Dorothea's first argument about?

3. Will and Adolf convince Dorothea and Casaubon to do what?

4. Where does Casaubon live?

5. Where does Mary want to work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Dorothea saddened while on her honeymoon?

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

5. Why does Lydgate visit Lowick in Chapter 42?

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

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

8. What happens to Fred Vincy in Chapter 23?

9. Compare and contrast the Brooke sisters.

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

(see the answer keys)

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