Middlemarch Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Middlemarch? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What aspect of marriage was important to Eliot?


Romance
First meeting
First date
First kiss
After the wedding bells
Q. Dorothea feels with everybody, and she can’t turn it off. Which theme is this?


Love
Fear
Compassion
Dissipation
Family
Q. Eliot believed the conventional marriage plot


Trapped women
Helped women
Inspired women
Made women laugh
Made women cry
Q. The farm laborers don't trust


Oxygen
New railway
Evolution
Light bulb
Medicine
Q. What happens to most dreams in this novel?


Crushed
Delivered quickly
Delivered slowly
Fulfilled in full
Fulfilled in part