The Mill on the Floss Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Mill on the Floss Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?
(a) He fears that Maggie is popular with the boys when she is older.
(b) He fears that Maggie never wants to leave home because she is so close to her parents.
(c) He fears that Maggie is sorry to see Tom go away to school.
(d) He fears that Maggie's cleverness leads to trouble when she grows up and becomes a woman.

2. Why does Maggie get angry with her aunts and uncles?
(a) They scold and judge, but do not help.
(b) They fight over pieces of furniture.
(c) They do not remember to bring the cousins.
(d) They criticize the dishes and linens.

3. What kind of a job does Mr. Deane eventually find for Tom?
(a) A job working as a laborer on a farm.
(b) A job working in the mill.
(c) A warehouse job.
(d) A bookkeeping job.

4. To whom does Tom go for advice about getting a job?
(a) His teacher, Mr. Stelling.
(b) The lawyer, Mr. Wakem.
(c) His father's friend, Riley.
(d) His uncle Deane.

5. Why do Tom and Philip become closer again for a little while while Tom is recovering from his injury?
(a) Tom apologizes to Philip for the things he says before.
(b) They both love Maggie.
(c) They both realize how silly their quarrel is.
(d) Philip is kind to Tom while he recovers from his injury.

6. 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 Tom is never likely to become much of a scholar.
(c) Mr. Tulliver says that if Tom is a miller, he turns Mr. Tulliver out of his own mill.
(d) Mr. Tulliver says that he does not mean for Tom to be a miller and a farmer.

7. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?
(a) A local lawyer, Wakem, is also sending his son to the same clergyman.
(b) The clergyman recently stops taking students.
(c) Sending Tom to study with the clergyman is very expensive.
(d) There are recent improvements to the local school.

8. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?
(a) To ask him to help the family.
(b) To persuade him not to buy the mill.
(c) To convince him to give Tom a job.
(d) To support him as he takes on the running of the mill.

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

10. How does Tom feel about the argument with Philip?
(a) He feels that he is never friends with Philip again.
(b) He hates Philip for being the son of Mr. Wakem.
(c) He does not see why they cannot just make it up.
(d) He resents Philip for being so far ahead of him in school.

11. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?
(a) She praises his son, Tom.
(b) She reminds him of their childhood together.
(c) She praises his daughter, Maggie.
(d) She offers him a piece of pie.

12. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?
(a) Foolish nonsense.
(b) Oppressive narrowness.
(c) Tempestuous flow of emotions.
(d) Self-righteous indignation.

13. What does Tom say when Maggie offers to teach him about bookkeeping?
(a) He says that she cannot teach him because she does not know how to do anything.
(b) He says that women are not supposed to teach men anything.
(c) He says that he is happy for her to teach him.
(d) He says that she always tries to set herself up above everyone else.

14. Why does Mrs. Glegg get angry with Mr. Glegg the morning after they come home from visiting the Tullivers?
(a) She feels that he is not careful enough about money.
(b) She feels that he does not do enough chores around the house.
(c) She feels he does not support her in the argument with Mr. Tulliver.
(d) She feels that he does not allow her to visit her sister often enough.

15. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?
(a) Tom makes fun of Philip's hunchback and insults his father.
(b) Tom and Philip fight over the mill's water rights.
(c) Philip makes fun of Tom's love of fishing and fighting.
(d) Tom and Philip both become interested in the same young woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom react to his father's accident?

2. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?

3. Why does Tom have a hard time at school with Mr. Stelling?

4. What is Maggie most shocked by when she arrives at home after accompanying Tom home from Lorton?

5. Why does Mr. Wakem ask Mr. Tulliver to run the mill?

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