Adam Bede: Study Help: Quiz

1: The story of Adam Bede opens in what year?

a. 1699

b. 1766

c. 1799

d. 1833

2: Dinah's style of preaching is what the people of the eighteenth century called

a. abstract

b. enthusiastic

c. doctrinal

d. catatonic

3: Mrs. Poyser's character can best be described as

a. witty, vivid, and colorful

b. unassuming, simple, and kind

c. calm, composed, and quiet

d. self-centered, childish, and vain

4: What situation in Book III intensifies and is a primary part of the plot?

a. Adam's appointment to a new job, master of the woods

b. Arthur's 21st birthday

c. Arthur's affair with Hetty

d. Adam's break from the Anglican church

5: The watchwords of Eliot's philosophy are

a. "nature versus nurture"

b. "mystical realism" and "conquer over nature"

c. "free love and "Victorian secrecy"

d. "moral realism" and "self-control"

6: In her attempt to demonstrate that we should not judge by appearances, Eliot repeatedly points out that a

a. lovely face does not always indicate a lovely soul

b. beautiful object might be the most poisonous

c. man of the cloth is not always a man with a spirit

d. man of strong physique is not always a man of strong character

7: Arthur finds himself unable to break off his relationship with Hetty because he

a. doesn't want to hurt her

b. refuses to let Adam win

c. truly loves her and wants to get married

d. fears she will betray him and tell the church of their affair

8: Adam's philosophy had always been

a. as long as one fights his true nature, he will lose

b. one should be happy on every day that he wakes up

c. as long as one has a faith that is enthusiastic, one is blessed

d. as long as one can work things are not so bad

9: Which character in Adam Bede best fits the description of a "bad" character?

a. Dinah

b. Arthur

c. Hetty

d. Mrs. Poyser

10: As the novel ends, Adam becomes

a. scarred by Hetty's demise

b. moral instead of moralistic

c. humbled by his ability to be cruel

d. distasteful of piousness

11: Which statement is most true about George Eliot's writing?

a. She was the original Victorian author and created the gothic literature genre.

b. She wanted all of her characters to be either "good" or "bad," and rewarded or punished accordingly.

c. She assumed that her audience would find her writing unusual and react negatively to it.

d. She pioneered the use of a consistent, first-person narrative.

12: Adam Bede is told in what point of view?

a. First person

b. Second person

c. Third person

d. Omniscient

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