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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 4 | Book 2: Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Riley recommend that Mr. Tulliver do about Tom's education?
(a) Send him to study with a parson.
(b) Send him to the village school.
(c) Send him to boarding school.
(d) Send him to study with a lawyer.

2. Why do you think that George Eliot chooses to begin a new book, Book II, with the chapter in which Tom first goes away to school?
(a) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(b) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(c) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.
(d) Tom has a birthday.

3. Why do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters criticize Mr. Tulliver?
(a) They are unimpressed with his parenting skills.
(b) They do not think that he treats Mrs. Tulliver well.
(c) They think that he is not good at managing money.
(d) They think that he is not very good looking.

4. Why does Mr. Tulliver want Tom to study drawing?
(a) So that he someday becomes an artist.
(b) So that he entertains himself at times when he is bored.
(c) So that he is well-rounded, understanding art as well as math and language.
(d) So that he becomes a good draftsman of buildings and bridges.

5. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?
(a) Philip makes fun of Tom's love of fishing and fighting.
(b) Tom makes fun of Philip's hunchback and insults his father.
(c) Tom and Philip fight over the mill's water rights.
(d) Tom and Philip both become interested in the same young woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think about the system of sending boys to study with independent schoolmasters, such as Mr. Stelling?

2. How does Tom hurt his foot?

3. Why does Maggie dunk her head in a tub of water?

4. How does Tom feel about the argument with Philip?

5. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?

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