1. Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. It first appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland town, in _____?
A:) 1829 to 1832
B:) 1819 to 1830
C:) 1820 to 1832
D:) 1822 to 1834
springline- Correct option: A:) 1829 to 1832
2. Despite comic elements, Middlemarch uses realism to encompass historical events: the 1832 Reform Act, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. It looks at medicine of the time and reactionary views in a settled community facing unwelcome change. Eliot began writing the two pieces that formed the novel in 1869–1870 and completed it in ______?
A:) 1870
B:) 1871
C:) 1872
D:) 1873
springline- Correct option: B:) 1871
3. Marriage is one of the major themes in Middlemarch. According to Whom, ‘both principal plots [those of Dorothea and Lydgate] are case studies of unsuccessful marriage’, This suggests that these ‘disastrous marriages’ leave the lives of Dorothea and Lydgate unfulfilled?
A:) George Orwell
B:) Thomas Hardy
C:) George Steiner
D:) Huxley
springline- Correct option: C:) George Steiner
4. In December she wrote of having begun another story, on a subject that she had considered ‘ever since I began to write fiction.’ By the end of the month she had written a hundred pages of this story ‘Middle March’ and entitled it _____?
A:) Miss Noble
B:) Mr. Brook
C:) Miss Dorothea
D:) Miss Brooke
springline- Correct option: D:) Miss Brooke
5. The publisher John Blackwood, who had made a loss on acquiring the English rights to that novel, was approached by Lewes in his role as Eliot's literary agent. He suggested that the novel be brought out in eight two-monthly parts, borrowing the method used for Victor Hugo's novel ____?
A:) Les Misérables
B:) The Hunchback
C:) The Man who laughs
D:) Ninety-Three
springline- Correct option: A:) Les Misérables
6. Who is a Dorothea's younger sister who is beautiful, She is more sensual than Dorothea and does not share her idealism and asceticism and She is only too happy to marry Sir James Chettam when Dorothea rejects him ?
A:) Arthur Brooke
B:) Will Ladislaw
C:) Celia Brooke
D:) Fred Vincy
springline- Correct option: C:) Celia Brooke
7. Dorothea Brooke is a 19-year-old orphan, living with her younger sister, as a ward of her uncle, Mr. Brooke. Dorothea is an especially pious young woman, whose hobby involves the renovation of buildings belonging to the tenant farmers, although her uncle discourages her. Dorothea is courted by _____?
A:) Sir James Chettam
B:) Will Ladislaw
C:) Caleb Garth
D:) Camden Farebrother
springline- Correct option: A:) Sir James Chettam
8. Who is the plain, kind daughter of Caleb and Susan Garth serves as Mr Featherstone's nurse and She and Fred Vincy were childhood sweethearts, but she will not let him woo her until he shows himself willing and able to live seriously, practically and sincerely ?
A:) Nicholas Bulstrode
B:) Peter Feather
C:) Mr.Hawley
D:) Mary Garth
springline- Correct option: D:) Mary Garth
9. Dorothea Brooke is attracted instead to the Rev. Edward Casaubon, 45-year-old scholar. Dorothea accepts Casaubon's offer of marriage, despite her sister's misgivings. Chettam is encouraged to turn his attention to Celia, who has developed an interest in him. Mary Garth; although she is considered plain, Who is in love with her and wants to marry her?
A:) Fred
B:) Camden Farebrother
C:) Mr.Mawmsey
D:) John Raffles
springline- Correct option: A:) Fred
10. Dorothea and Casaubon experience the first tensions in their marriage on their honeymoon in Rome, when Dorothea finds that her husband has no interest in involving her in his intellectual pursuits and no real intention of having his copious notes published, which was her chief reason for marrying him. She meets Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's much younger disinherited ______?
A:) son
B:) cousin
C:) daughter
D:) niece
springline- Correct option: B:) cousin
11. Fred becomes deeply in debt and finds himself unable to repay what he owes. Having asked Mr Garth, Mary's father, to co-sign the debt, he now tells Garth he must forfeit it. As a result, Mrs Garth's savings from the income of___?
A:) three years
B:) two years
C:) four years
D:) five years
springline- Correct option: C:) four years
12. Lydgate also becomes acquainted with Rosamond Vincy, whose beauty and education go together with shallowness and self-absorption. Seeking to make a good match, she decides to marry Lydgate, who comes from a wealthy family, and uses Fred's sickness as an opportunity to get close to the doctor. Who initially views their relationship as pure flirtation and backs away from Rosamond after discovering that the town considers them practically engaged?
A:) Dr . Sprague
B:) John Waule
C:) Fred
D:) Lydgate
springline- Correct option: D:) Lydgate
13. Casaubon arrives back from Rome about the same time, only to suffer a heart attack. Lydgate, brought in to attend him, tells Dorothea it is difficult to pronounce on the nature of Casaubon's illness and chances of recovery: that he may indeed live about ______?
A:) 10 years
B:) 15 years
C:) 20 years
D:) 12 years
springline- Correct option: B:) 15 years
14. As Fred recovers, Mr. Featherstone falls ill. He reveals on his deathbed that he has made two wills and tries to get Mary to help him destroy one. Unwilling to be involved in the business, she refuses, and Featherstone dies with both wills still intact. Featherstone's plan had been for £10,000 to go to Fred Vincy, but his estate and fortune instead go to an illegitimate son of his, ____?
A:) Joshua Rigg
B:) Mr Tyke
C:) John Riffles
D:) Nicholas Bulstrode
springline- Correct option: A:) Joshua Rigg
15. Ladislaw is in love with Dorothea but keeps this secret, having no desire to involve her in scandal or cause her disinheritance. She meanwhile realises she has romantic feelings for him, but must suppress them. He remains in Middlemarch, working as a newspaper editor for ___?
A:) Nicholas Blustrode
B:) Mr Brooke
C:) Peter Featherstone
D:) Will Ladislaw
springline- Correct option: B:) Mr. Brooke
16. Lydgate's efforts to please Rosamond soon leave him deeply in debt and he is forced to seek help from Bulstrode. He is partly sustained in this by a friendship with Camden Farebrother. Whose humiliation at being responsible for Caleb Garth's financial setbacks shocks him into reassessing his life?
A:) Lucy Vincy
B:) Fred Vincy
C:) Camden Farebrother
D:) Celia Brooke
springline- Correct option: B:) Fred Vincy
17. Who is a mysterious man who knows of Bulstrode's shady past, appears in Middlemarch, intending to blackmail him and in his youth, the church-going Bulstrode engaged in questionable financial dealings and his fortune is founded on his marriage to a wealthy, much older widow?
A:) Mr Tyke
B:) John Raffles
C:) Joshua Rigg Featherstone
D:) Jane Waule
springline- Correct option: B:) John Raffles
18. Who is a wealthy banker married to Vincy's sister, Harriet, he is a pious Methodist keen to impose his beliefs in Middlemarch society. However, he has a sordid past he is desperate to hide and his religion favours his personal desires and lacks sympathy for others?
A:) Nicholas Bulstrode
B:) Mr Tyke
C:) Humphrey Cadwallader
D:) Celia Brooke
springline- Correct option: A:) Nicholas Bulstrode
19. When Mr. Brooke's election campaign collapses, Ladislaw decides to leave the town and visits Dorothea to say his farewell, but Dorothea has fallen in love with him. She renounces Casaubon's fortune and shocks her family by announcing that she will marry _______?
A:) Rosamond Vincy
B:) Ladislaw
C:) Sir James Chettam
D:) Mary Garth
springline- Correct option: B:) Ladislaw
20. Who is an idealistic, talented, but naive young doctor, is relatively poor, but of good birth and he hopes to make big advances in medicine through his research, but ends up in an unhappy marriage with Rosamond Vincy and His attempts to show he is answerable to no man fail, and he eventually has to leave town, sacrificing his high ideals to please his wife , who is he?
A:) Sir James Chettam
B:) Tertius Lydgate
C:) Dorothea Brooke
D:) Tertius Lydgate
springline- Correct option: D:) Tertius Lydgate
21. Rev. Edward Casaubon a pedantic, selfish, elderly clergyman is so taken up with his scholarly research that his marriage to Dorothea is loveless, His unfinished book, The Key to All Mythologies, is intended as a monument to Christian syncretism, but his research is out of date as he cannot read ____?
A:) Spanish
B:) Greek
C:) French
D:) German
springline- Correct option: D:) German
22. Who is a poor but clever vicar and amateur naturalist, he is a friend of Lydgate and Fred Vincy and loves Mary Garth and his position improves when Dorothea appoints him to a living after Casaubon's death ?
A:) Will Ladislaw
B:) Camden Farebrother
C:) Humphrey Cadwallader
D:) Peter Featherstone
springline- Correct option: B:) Camden Farebrother
23. Middlemarch’s The subtitle—’A Study of Provincial Life’—has been seen as significant. One critic views the unity of Middlemarch as achieved through ‘the fusion of the two senses of 'provincial'‘: on the one hand it means geographically ‘all parts of the country except the capital’; and on the other, a person who is _______?
A:) sophisticated
B:) broad mind
C:) unsophisticated
D:) weird mind
springline- Correct option: C:) unsophisticated
24. Middlemarch; The action of Middlemarch takes place ‘between September 1829 and May 1832’, or 40 years before its publication in 1871–1872, a gap not so pronounced for it to be regularly labelled as a _____?
A:) Historical novel
B:) Fantasy novel
C:) Mysteries
D:) Science Fiction
springline- Correct option: A:) Historical novel
25. The fictional town of Middlemarch, North Loamshire, is probably based on Coventry, where Eliot had lived before moving to London. Like Coventry, Middlemarch is described as a manufacturing town of the factory of_____?
A:) textiles
B:) silk-ribbon
C:) silk-cotton
D:) coal factory
springline- Correct option: B:) silk-ribbon
26. Carolyn Steedman links Eliot's emphasis on provincialism in Middlemarch to Matthew Arnold's discussion of social class in England in Culture and Anarchy essays, published in 1869, about the time Eliot began working on the stories that became Middlemarch. There Arnold classes British society in terms of Barbarians (aristocrats and landed gentry), Philistines (urban middle class) and Populace (working class). Who suggests Middlemarch ’is a portrait of Philistine Provincialism?
A:) George Henry
B:) Steedman
C:) James Joyce
D:) Huxley
springline- Correct option: B:) Steedman
27. There Eliot achieved fame way beyond most women of her time, whereas Dorothea takes on the role of nurturing Will and her family. Eliot was rejected by her family once she had settled in her common-law relationship with Lewes, and ‘their profound disapproval prevented her ever going home again.’ She omitted Coventry from her last visit to the Midlands in ____?
A:) 1855
B:) 1857
C:) 1856
D:) 1858
springline- Correct option: A:) 1855
28. Eliot has also been criticised more widely for ending the novel with Dorothea marrying Will Ladislaw, someone so clearly her inferior. The novelist, Who describes Ladislaw as a dilettante who ‘has not the concentrated fervour essential in the man chosen by so nobly strenuous a heroine?
A:) James Joyce
B:) Henry James
C:) Charlotte Bronte
D:) Thomas Hardy
springline- Correct option: B:) Henry James
29. Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote _____?
A:) eight novels
B:) nine novels
C:) seven novels
D:) eleven novels
springline- Correct option: C:) seven novels
30. Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes. Middlemarch was described by Whom as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'?
A:) Charles Dickens
B:) Virginia Woolf
C:) George Orwell
D:) Jane Austen
springline- Correct option: B:) Virginia Woolf