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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: Chapter 1 | Book 5: Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maggie's one indulgence during the period when she is nursing her father back to health?
(a) Fresh fruit.
(b) The company of friends.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) Her daily walk.

2. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?
(a) Tom.
(b) Mrs. Tulliver.
(c) Yap.
(d) Maggie.

3. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?
(a) She hopes to borrow money from Mrs. Glegg herself.
(b) Mrs. Tulliver asks her to intervene.
(c) She does not like to have family members arguing with each other.
(d) She does not want people in town to hear that her family is quarreling over money.

4. Why has Philip come to see Maggie?
(a) He wants to do something to help.
(b) He brings something for her family.
(c) He has a message from his father.
(d) He wants to be friends.

5. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?
(a) To persuade him not to buy the mill.
(b) To convince him to give Tom a job.
(c) To support him as he takes on the running of the mill.
(d) To ask him to help the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the aunts and uncles think of Tom, now that he grows up?

2. Why does Mr. Tulliver agree to run the mill, even though Mr. Wakem now owns it ?

3. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?

4. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?

5. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?

(see the answer key)

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