Adam Bede Quizzes

Adam Bede Quiz 1

1 What is Adam Bede's profession?
carpenter

wheelmaker

dairy farmer

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

Arthur Donnithorne

the vicar

Adam Bede
3 What is Adam's mother's name?
Anne

Hetty

Lisbeth

Dinah
4 Who is a Methodist preacher?
the vicar

Seth

Dinah

Adam
5 What is the piece of work that Thias has forgotten to work on?
a door

a table

a house

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

the vicar

Adam

Hetty
7 What does the stranger say that Adam looks good for?
working

marrying young

carrying a coffin

beating the French
8 Adam Bede is in love with
Mary Burge

Dinah

Mrs. Poyser

Hetty
9 Seth Bede is in love with
Dinah

Lisbeth

Mary Burge

Hetty
10 Adam's dog is named
Vixen

Juno

Sam

Gyp
11 People think that Adam will marry Mary Burge
to spite Hetty

because he loves her

to become partners with her father

because he has proposed
12 Most villagers are
Jewish

Orthodox

Methodist

Anglican
13 The Poysers are
carpenters

dairy farmers

surveyors

land-owners
14 Hetty's main vice is
pride

vanity

gluttony

lust
15 Hetty's principal chore is to
look after Totty

make bread

milk the cows

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
being shot

natural causes

drowning

being hung
18 Who comes to visit Lisbeth in her time of trouble?
Dinah

Mrs. Poyser

Chad's Bess

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

in a church

in a factory

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

avoid seeing Hetty

court Dinah

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

a field

the woods

the Chase
22 Dinah turns down Seth's offer of marriage
because he is not smart enough

because he is not good-looking enough

because she thinks that she is called to help others

because he is not rich enough
23 When Mrs. Irwine notices Seth from a distance, what is he doing?
taking care of his mother

talking with Dinah

whistling

cutting down a tree
24 Whom does Mr. Poyser always criticize?
his wife

other farmers

Hetty

his children
25 Hetty has a passion for
her family

helping others

nature

jewelry

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