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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6: Chapter 8 | Book 6: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom want to do to make more money?
(a) Get a second job.
(b) Speculate by investing in businesses.
(c) Go back to school to get a better education.
(d) Trade, by sending cargo out to foreign ports.

2. How does Maggie try to stem her loneliness while she is living at home and nursing her father back to health?
(a) She visits all her old childhood haunts in the neighborhood.
(b) She sits with her mother and tries to cheer her up.
(c) She talks with Bob whenever he comes to visit.
(d) She finds Tom's old schoolbooks and begins to study them.

3. How does their father's death affect Maggie and Tom's relationship?
(a) They forgive each other.
(b) Their attitudes toward each other are unchanged.
(c) They blame each other.
(d) They decide to tolerate each other.

4. Why does Stephen want to marry Lucy?
(a) She is not a remarkable rarity but is moderate in all things.
(b) She is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.
(c) He is madly in love with her and thinks of nothing else.
(d) He thinks that his family approves of a marriage with her.

5. What helps Mrs. Glegg to feel better about her argument with Mr. Glegg?
(a) He tells her that they are doing fine financially.
(b) He hints that he provides well for her in his will.
(c) He suggests that family is more important than money.
(d) He tells her that she is being foolish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Wakem decide to buy the mill?

2. How does Mrs. Glegg react to Mr. Tulliver's letter?

3. Why is Maggie nervous about seeing Tom when he comes home?

4. What does Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?

5. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?

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