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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 Sir Chettam offer to Dorothea as a gift?
(a) A silk scarf.
(b) A box of chocolates.
(c) A Maltese puppy.
(d) A diamond ring.

2. Where is Lydgate at the beginning of Chapter 42?
(a) Stone Court.
(b) Tipton.
(c) Lowick.
(d) Freshitt.

3. While Dorothea was away in Rome, what happened to her sister Celia?
(a) She fell ill.
(b) She moved to London.
(c) She became engaged.
(d) She died.

4. Lydgate compares himself to physicians of old who did what?
(a) Exhumed corpses to study anatomy.
(b) Used unsterilized instruments.
(c) Dissected animals.
(d) Refused to treat poor patients.

5. Who arrives at Tipton Grange just as Casaubon is leaving?
(a) Mr. Brooke.
(b) Sir Chettam.
(c) Celia.
(d) Mrs. Cadwallader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Will call Lowick?

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

3. Regarding Dorothea, Sir Chettam seeks whose counsel?

4. What event is upcoming in Middlemarch at the beginning of Chapter 37?

5. Whom does Mr. Lydgate admire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Fred and Peter Stonehouse fight about?

2. What are the objections that the men of Middlemarch express about the way Lydgate practices medicine?

3. Describe Lydgate's role in the appointment of the new chaplain.

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

5. Why does Mrs. Vincy encourage Rosamond to go to Stone Court more often?

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

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

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

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

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

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