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

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

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 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Mr. Tulliver to wake up?

2. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?

3. What is Maggie shocked to notice after the sale?

4. Why do Tom and Philip become closer again for a little while while Tom is recovering from his injury?

5. Who is in their home in St. Ogg's when Tom and Maggie arrive from Lorton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tom try to convince Philip to come and see the sword demonstration?

2. How does Maggie feel about Tom after he pays off the family debts?

3. Why is Mrs. Tulliver so upset when Tom and Maggie arrive at home?

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

5. The day that Tom comes home from school for the first time, what events occur that foreshadow the flood at the end of the book?

6. The title of Book Five, last chapter, Chapter Seven, "A Day of Reckoning," has a double meaning. What is it?

7. Why is Mr. Deane, at first, so unwilling to help Tom after Mr. Tulliver's accident?

8. Why do you think that Dr. Kenn offers Maggie a job as a governess when she returns from her boat trip with Stephen?

9. Mr. Wakem at first reacts with violent opposition to Philip's proposal to marry Maggie, and then he changes his mind. Why do you think that he changes his mind?

10. Why do you think that Book Six ends with the chapter in which Maggie leaves Stephen and returns to St. Ogg's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To whom do a young person living in the village of St. Ogg's turn, if he or she needs guidance? How does a young person who loses his or her parents, or whose parents are not very sensible, find guidance about life? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

George Eliot depicts Maggie as much more able, intellectually, than her brother Tom. Some critics read The Mill on the Floss as an early feminist novel, calling for the full education of women and for women's equality. Socially conservative critics, however, have a different perspective on the novel, and view it as making an argument for better educating women in order to make them more effective within the family. Choose a critical perspective that makes the most sense to you, based on your own background and beliefs. Use examples from The Mill on the Floss to make a feminist argument for the emancipation of women, or to make a socially conservative argument for full education of women on behalf of their role in the family.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Maggie find the ascetic life described by Thomas a Kempis to be so appealing in the years after her family goes bankrupt? Philip Wakem says that she is not really compelled by the ascetic ideal, but that she is stupefying herself into accepting it. Do you think he is correct? Compare the words of Thomas a Kempis with the life that Maggie already is living. Is there a parallel? Why or why not?

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