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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 will make Dorothea feel better?
(a) Spending a week in the hospital.
(b) Talking to a clergyman.
(c) Being home.
(d) Going to a spa.

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

3. 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 Cadwallader.
(b) Cadwallader and Farebrother.
(c) Tyke and Farebrother.
(d) Cadwallader, Farebrother, and Tyke.

4. What happens to Fred after he visits Mary?
(a) He gets injured.
(b) He falls ill.
(c) He dies.
(d) He gets robbed.

5. What relation is Celia to Dorothea?
(a) Aunt.
(b) Mother.
(c) Sister.
(d) Daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. To pay off his debts, Fred decides to sell what?

2. What does Will want to do in the future?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 16, the people of Middlemarch are gossiping about the appointment of a _________ for the new hospital.

4. Whom does Mr. Lydgate admire?

5. Lydgate and Rosamond agree that one of the drawbacks of living in a rural area is that there are so few good:

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Dorothea saddened while on her honeymoon?

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

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

6. How do Mr. Brooke and Casaubon feel about Ladislaw in Chapter 37?

7. What does Rosamond admire about Lydgate?

8. Summarize Lydgate's background.

9. Describe how Dorothea, Mr. Brooke, and Celia, respectively, feel about Dorothea's engagement to Casaubon.

10. What do Fred and Peter Stonehouse fight about?

(see the answer keys)

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