'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 Lydgate Farebrother Bulstrode

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

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

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

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

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 Tipton Lowick Stone Court

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? they're not related illegitimate son second cousin nephew

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? sapphires rubies emeralds amethysts

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

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

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? Harriet Celia Rosamond Mary

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

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

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

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!)