Adam Bede Quizzes

Adam Bede Quiz 1

1 What is Adam Bede's profession?
wheelmaker

carpenter

dairy farmer

aristocrat
2 Who is the old Squire's heir?
Adam Bede

the vicar

Arthur Donnithorne

Seth Bede
3 What is Adam's mother's name?
Dinah

Anne

Hetty

Lisbeth
4 Who is a Methodist preacher?
Adam

the vicar

Seth

Dinah
5 What is the piece of work that Thias has forgotten to work on?
a table

a house

a coffin

a door
6 Who is most affected by Dinah's speech?
Chad's Bess

Hetty

the vicar

Adam
7 What does the stranger say that Adam looks good for?
marrying young

working

carrying a coffin

beating the French
8 Adam Bede is in love with
Hetty

Mary Burge

Mrs. Poyser

Dinah
9 Seth Bede is in love with
Hetty

Lisbeth

Dinah

Mary Burge
10 Adam's dog is named
Juno

Sam

Vixen

Gyp
11 People think that Adam will marry Mary Burge
because he loves her

to become partners with her father

to spite Hetty

because he has proposed
12 Most villagers are
Methodist

Anglican

Jewish

Orthodox
13 The Poysers are
land-owners

surveyors

carpenters

dairy farmers
14 Hetty's main vice is
pride

gluttony

lust

vanity
15 Hetty's principal chore is to
milk the cows

look after Totty

make bread

make butter
16 When Mrs. Poyser sees the vicar and the Squire approach, she thinks that
she will be kicked off her land

the Squire will propose to Hetty

the Squire will propose to Dinah

the Squire will propose to her
17 Thias Bede dies of
natural causes

being shot

being hung

drowning
18 Who comes to visit Lisbeth in her time of trouble?
Chad's Bess

Mrs. Poyser

Hetty

Dinah
19 Where does Dinah work when she is at home?
in a factory

in a brothel

in a church

in a mill
20 The vicar advises Arthur to
avoid seeing Dinah

court Dinah

avoid seeing Hetty

court Hetty
21 Arthur speaks to Hetty alone for the first time in
a field

the Chase

the woods

the buttery
22 Dinah turns down Seth's offer of marriage
because she thinks that she is called to help others

because he is not rich enough

because he is not smart enough

because he is not good-looking enough
23 When Mrs. Irwine notices Seth from a distance, what is he doing?
cutting down a tree

taking care of his mother

whistling

talking with Dinah
24 Whom does Mr. Poyser always criticize?
his children

his wife

other farmers

Hetty
25 Hetty has a passion for
jewelry

her family

helping others

nature

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