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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 does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?
(a) She sticks her head in a bucket of water.
(b) She cuts it.
(c) She braids it and puts a hat on.
(d) She brushes it.

2. Why does looking at the new bonnet make Mrs. Tulliver and Mrs. Pullet so sad?
(a) Mrs. Pullet speculates that she may not live to wear the bonnet in a second season.
(b) The bonnet is not fashionable any more.
(c) Mrs. Tulliver wishes that she has a similar bonnet.
(d) The bonnet is crushed in the closet and ruined.

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

4. How does Maggie react when Tom takes Lucy to the pond and tells Maggie not to come?
(a) She pushes Lucy into the mud.
(b) She jumps into the pond.
(c) She begins to fight with Tom.
(d) She runs away.

5. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?
(a) She considers it to be phony and contrived.
(b) She feels that it is unnecessarily melodramatic.
(c) She considers it to be genuine and sincere.
(d) She thinks it is intended to irritate the Dodson sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom think of Maggie?

2. What attribute do all the Dodson sisters have in common?

3. Who is Mr. Tulliver planning to send away to school?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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