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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. Dorothea and Casaubon argue over what in Chapter 19?
(a) Financial issues.
(b) Whether to have children.
(c) Dorothea's role in their marriage.
(d) How long to stay in Rome.

2. What event is upcoming in Middlemarch at the beginning of Chapter 37?
(a) Independence Day.
(b) County fair.
(c) Elections.
(d) Christmas.

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

4. Where is the funeral service held?
(a) Tipton.
(b) Lowick.
(c) Stone Court.
(d) Freshitt.

5. What does Mr. Vincy want Bulstrode to do?
(a) Come to dinner.
(b) Write a letter.
(c) Loan him money.
(d) Pay him back.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Dorothea's behest, Mr. Brooke writes a letter inviting whom to Tipton Grange?

2. What does Will call Lowick?

3. To whom does Lydgate announce his marriage plans?

4. By the end of Chapter 21, what is Edward's primary emotion regarding Will?

5. Who discerns the reason for Lydgate's avoidance of Rosamond?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Dorothea saddened while on her honeymoon?

4. What are the reasons Mary Garth gives Fred for refusing to marry him? What is Fred's response?

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

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

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

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

9. What do Featherstone's two wills state?

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

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