1. What does the narrator think about the system of sending boys to study with independent schoolmasters, such as Mr. Stelling?
(a) She thinks that it leaves a boy's education up to pure luck.
(b) She thinks it is wrong for boys to leave their homes to go to school.
(c) She approves of the individual attention that boys get from these teachers.
(d) She feels that girls should also go to school with independent schoolmasters.

2. How does Mr. Tulliver look when he goes to meet his creditors and pay them?
(a) Like his old self, strong and full of life.
(b) Lacking in confidence, unsure of himself.
(c) Sick, weakly, and feeble.
(d) Emotionally overwrought, tearful, and hesitant.

3. Why does Mr. Tulliver agree to run the mill, even though Mr. Wakem now owns it ?
(a) The mill life is the only job he knows.
(b) He still loves the mill and wants to take care of it.
(c) He needs a way to provide for his family.
(d) He gets a promotion if he stays on at the mill.

4. Why does Maggie leap to Tom's defense while Mr. Tulliver discusses Tom's education with Mr. Riley?
(a) Mr. Tulliver says that he has something on his mind regarding Tom.
(b) Mr. Tulliver says that if Tom is a miller, he turns Mr. Tulliver out of his own mill.
(c) Mr. Tulliver says that he does not mean for Tom to be a miller and a farmer.
(d) Mr. Tulliver says that Tom is never likely to become much of a scholar.

5. What does Maggie tell Lucy is her reason for leaving St. Ogg's and taking another teaching job?
(a) She cannot marry Philip if her brother does not approve.
(b) She prefers never to marry at all, but just to teach.
(c) She does not want to marry Philip anymore.
(d) She falls in love with Stephen.