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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 9 | Book 1: Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do we know that Maggie tends to be rambunctious?
(a) She likes to read books.
(b) She manages to stay neat and clean.
(c) She sits still to have her hair combed.
(d) She is always getting her clothes dirty.

2. What does Tom think of Maggie?
(a) He competes with her for attention in the family.
(b) He thinks that she should be more ladylike.
(c) He admires her because of her intelligence.
(d) He thinks she is silly, but is fond of her.

3. What does the narrator say it means when a young boy appears sheepish?
(a) He is carefully listening to what you say.
(b) He is in awe of your wisdom.
(c) He is thinking of counterarguments to your views.
(d) He thinks you are strange.

4. Why does Maggie dunk her head in a tub of water?
(a) She does not want her mother to try to curl it.
(b) She is too hot and wants to cool off.
(c) She is trying to make her mother think that she takes a bath.
(d) She spills something on her hair.

5. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?
(a) He remembers that the Mosses have a lot of expenses to pay.
(b) He realizes that he doesn't really need the money that badly.
(c) He wants Tom to be generous with Maggie if she ever needs it.
(d) He thinks about how he feels in Mr. Moss's position.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Tulliver panic when she cannot find Maggie?

2. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?

3. How does Tom spend his afternoon on the day that he gets home?

4. What part of the book is introduced in the first chapter?

5. How does the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?

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