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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do Philip and Maggie become close?
(a) Maggie and Philip are united in their dislike of swords.
(b) They go for walks together around the village.
(c) They spend a lot of time together while Tom is recovering.
(d) Maggie begins to study with Philip.

3. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?
(a) He decides to borrow the money to pay Mrs. Glegg back.
(b) He decides to go to Mrs. Glegg himself and ask her to wait a while longer for the money.
(c) He tells Mrs. Pullet how grateful he is to have her help.
(d) He already has the money and pays Mrs. lregg back right away.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Maggie discover when she finds the gypsies?

3. What happens to Maggie when she tries to hug Tom because she is so delighted by the music coming from the music box?

4. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver quarrel during the Dodson sisters' first visit to the Tullivers.

2. How does Tom feel about the family's bankruptcy?

3. Why is it hard for Maggie to visit places in the neighborhood that she enjoys as a child, after the family goes bankrupt?

4. How does Mr. Tulliver react when Mrs. Tulliver tells him that Mrs. Pullet plans to intervene on his behalf with her sister, Mrs. Glegg?

5. Describe Maggie's character, based on her behavior during her childhood.

6. Do you think that the narrator is favorably impressed with the religion of the Dodsons and the Tullivers? Why or why not?

7. How does Maggie react when she realizes that she and Steven go too far in the boat?

8. Why do you think that Philip Wakem is able to forgive Maggie for the boat trip so easily, while many of the townspeople cannot?

9. What do you think horrifies Tom the most about Maggie meeting Philip, the fact that Philip is a hunchback, or that he is the son of Mr. Wakem? Why?

10. "Without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicity awkwardness," writes George Eliot in chapter nine. Who is she referring to? Why does she make this comment?

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