SparkNotes: Adam Bede: Quiz

1. What is Adam Bede’s profession?

(A) Teacher

(B) Carpenter

(C) Mortician

(D) Farmer

2. What religion is Dinah Morris?

(A) Methodist

(B) Catholic

(C) Episcopal

(D) Anglican

3. Where does Dinah Morris live for the majority of the novel?

(A) Hayslope

(B) Hall Farm

(C) Snowfield

(D) Stoniton

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason Hetty goes to Windsor?

(A) To find Captain Donnithorne

(B) Because she is pregnant

(C) To invite Dinah to her wedding

(D) All are true

5. Whom does Adam marry?

(A) Dinah Morris

(B) Hetty Sorrel

(C) Lisbeth Bede

(D) Rachel Poyser

6. Who stays with Adam during the trial?

(A) Mr. Irwine

(B) His mother

(C) Seth

(D) Bartle Massey

7. What is the outcome of Hetty’s trial?

(A) She is acquitted.

(B) She is convicted but pardoned.

(C) There is a hung jury.

(D) She is convicted and sentenced to die.

8. What does Captain Donnithorne give Hetty?

(A) A bracelet engraved with his name

(B) A locket with his hair in it

(C) A new string of beads

(D) A new milkmaid outfit

9. Why doesn’t Adam go to Ireland?

(A) The weather is too bad for travel.

(B) Hetty has come home.

(C) He secretly loves Dinah and can’t leave her.

(D) He finds out Hetty is in jail.

10. With whom does Mr. Irwine live?

(A) His mother and sisters

(B) His wife and children

(C) The Poysers

(D) No one; he lives alone.

11. Of the following, who is alive at the end of the novel?

(A) The Squire

(B) Thias Bede

(C) Seth Bede

(D) Hetty Sorrel

12. What is Adam’s dog’s name?

(A) Dog

(B) Gyp

(C) Totty

(D) Cat

13. Whom does Adam beat up?

(A) Mr. Irwine

(B) Seth

(C) Captain Donnithorne

(D) Mr. Massey

14. Where does Hetty meet Captain Donnithorne for the first time?

(A) At his coming-of-age party

(B) At the Harvest Supper

(C) At her trial

(D) At the Poysers

15. Of the following, who is NOT a Methodist?

(A) Dinah Morris

(B) Seth Bede

(C) Joshua Rann

(D) Sarah Stone

16. Who of the following testifies at Hetty’s trial?

(A) Mr. Irwine

(B) Mr. Poyser

(C) Captain Donnithorne

(D) None of the above

17. What is Hetty’s child’s name?

(A) Arthur

(B) Adam

(C) Seth

(D) We don’t know.

18. Of the following, who does not leave Hayslope at any time during the novel?

(A) Lisbeth Bede

(B) Hetty Sorrel

(C) Adam Bede

(D) Arthur Donnithorne

19. Which of the following is NOT one of Hetty’s chores at Hall Farm?

(A) Walking Gyp

(B) Taking care of Totty

(C) Working in the dairy

(D) Light housework

20. Where does Captain Donnithorne go after Hetty’s trial?

(A) To Ireland

(B) To join the army

(C) Home

(D) To jail

21. Who is NOT at the Harvest Supper?

(A) Adam Bede

(B) Martin Poyser

(C) Dinah Morris

(D) Wiry Ben

22. What does Mrs. Irwine give as a prize at Captain Donnithorne’s party?

(A) Earrings

(B) A nice vase

(C) Movie tickets

(D) A woolen cloak

23. Adam Bede is an example of which school of writing?

(A) Realism

(B) Expressionism

(C) Rationalism

(D) High school

24. Who is Mr. Irwine?

(A) The rector of Hayslope and Broxton

(B) Captain Donnithorne’s friend

(C) Adam’s confidante

(D) All of the above

25. Why does Dinah go to Stoniton?

(A) To visit Hetty

(B) To marry Adam

(C) To preach

(D) It’s warmer there