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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. Why do the gossiping women visit Rosamond?
(a) To tell her Fred is in jail.
(b) To urge her not to marry Lydgate.
(c) To ask her advice.
(d) To urge her to marry Lydgate.

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

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

4. Who asks Bulstrode to try to convince Lydgate not to marry Rosamond?
(a) Mary Garth.
(b) Fred.
(c) Mrs. Bulstrode.
(d) Casaubon.

5. Dorothea chooses a room at Lowick that used to belong to which relative of Casaubon?
(a) His wife.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens at the end of Chapter 33?

2. Who dies on a dreary May day?

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 has the tie breaking vote for the chaplain's appointment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast the Brooke sisters.

2. Why is Dorothea saddened while on her honeymoon?

3. Why does Lydgate visit Lowick in Chapter 42?

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

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

6. What do Dorothea and Will talk about during Will's visit?

7. Why does Casaubon propose to Dorothea?

8. Summarize Lydgate's background.

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

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

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