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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of job does Maggie find to support herself?
2. How does Philip Wakem react to the news about Maggie and Stephen?
3. What do Tom and Maggie both fear when Tom announces to his father that he is able to pay the debts?
4. How do Maggie and Stephen react to their growing interest in each other?
5. Why does Maggie have nightmares while she sleeps on the boat with Stephen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Maggie's childhood relationship with Tom foreshadow the relationship she has with him as an adult? Compare Tom's tendency to alternately indulge and shame Maggie as a child with the way he treats her as an adult, when he interferes in her relationships with men. Support your answer with examples from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
At the end of Book Three, Mr. Tulliver insists on having Tom write in the Bible that Mr. Tulliver never wants to work for Wakem and that although he serves him honestly, he wishes evil befalls him. Why do you think that Mr. Tulliver wants to have these words written in the Bible? Why does the family find it so shocking that he writes these words in the Bible? Support your answer with details from the book.
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