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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 does Mr. Brooke show Dorothea upon her return to Tipton?
(a) Plans for a house.
(b) A letter.
(c) An injury.
(d) His new horse.

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

3. The setting of Chapter 19 is where?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Middlemarch.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sir James Chettam come to the dinner party at Tipton Grange?

2. The men on the board of the hospital meet to vote on the new chaplain. The vote is a tie between which characters?

3. To whom does Lydgate announce his marriage plans?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 4, from where are Dorothea and Celia returning?

5. Caleb Vincy is what relation of Fred?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Dorothea saddened while on her honeymoon?

2. What is the purpose of Dorothea's first visit to Lowick? What happens there?

3. What do Featherstone's two wills state?

4. Why does Casaubon propose to Dorothea?

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

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

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

8. What reasons does Ladislaw give Naumann for being tired of art lessons?

9. Compare and contrast the Brooke sisters.

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

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