'Middlemarch' Quiz

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1. You know it's coming, so let's just get it over with. George Eliot is the pen name. What's the author's real name? Answer: (Three Words)

2. A new doctor arrives in Middlemarch; what is his name? Ladislaw Bulstrode Farebrother Lydgate

3. At the beginning of the novel, Dorothea has two suitors. What are their names? Ladislaw and Farebrother Farebrother and Casaubon Casaubon and Chettam Lydgate and Chettam

4. Mr. Brook buys one of the town's newspapers. What is the name of the paper? the Chronicle the Trumpet the Pioneer the Herald

5. Where do Dorothea and her husband spend their honeymoon? Paris Athens Vienna Rome

6. While on their honeymoon an artist asks to use Dorothea's husband as a model for his painting of whom? John Locke St. Thomas Aquinas Thomas a' Beckett Sir Thomas More

7. Poor Fred Vincy just can't get a break. He ends up being bailed out of financial problems at one time or another by all of the following except one. Which one? Featherstone Mary Garth Dorothea Caleb Garth

8. What is the name of Mr. Brooke's estate? Freshitt Stone Court Lowick Tipton

9. True or False: Rosamond Vincy is the type of woman that Lydgate was hoping to marry. Answer: (What did he admire in women?)

10. How is Ladislaw related to Casaubon? illegitimate son second cousin nephew they're not related

11. Although Dorothea abhors 'trinkets,' she does decide to keep one set of her mother's jewelry before turning the rest over to Celia. What kind of gems are they? emeralds amethysts rubies sapphires

12. Mr. Bustrode had quite a murky past. His past evil dealings affected one of the main characters greatly. Which one? Tertius Lydgate Mr. Farebrother Fred Vincy Will Ladislaw

13. Rosamond is shocked when her advances are rejected by which man? Will Ladislaw Sir James Chettam Captain Lydgate Tertius Lydgate

14. Mary refuses to do what for Featherstone? turn away Mr. Farebrother overdose him tear up a will throw away his medicine

15. Who ends up inheriting Featherstone's estate? Mr. Rigg Mr. Jonah Featherstone Fred Vincy Mrs. Waule

16. Who is Dorothea least like in character? Celia Harriet Mary Rosamond

17. Before he died, what promise did Casaubon tell Dorthea he wanted her to make to him? none of the "above" to never sell Lowick to get his book published to never marry Will

18. By the end of the book, who doesn't end up with the woman he loves? Will Ladislaw Mr. Farebrother Fred Vincy Tertius Lydgate

19. Which character is a true blackmailer? Rosamond Mr. Bulstrode Mr. Raffles Featherstone

20. True or True: Is this the last line of the book...'for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs'? (The answer is True!) Answer: (Believe me: The answer is True!)