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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. 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 trying to make her mother think that she takes a bath.
(c) She spills something on her hair.
(d) She is too hot and wants to cool off.

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

3. Why is Maggie nervous about seeing Tom when he comes home?
(a) She thinks he forgets about her since he is away.
(b) She wants to convince him to take her fishing with him.
(c) She fears that Tom is upset about being sent away to study.
(d) She forgets to feed his rabbits and they die.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Maggie continue to see Philip when she does not believe she is ever able to marry him?

3. What does Maggie tell Lucy is her reason for leaving St. Ogg's and taking another teaching job?

4. What does Tom think of Maggie?

5. Mr. Tulliver wakes up briefly to talk to Tom when Tom arrives home from Lorton. But what happens to him after that?

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