The Mill on the Floss Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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The Mill on the Floss Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 4 | Book 2: Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?
(a) She braids it and puts a hat on.
(b) She sticks her head in a bucket of water.
(c) She brushes it.
(d) She cuts it.

2. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?
(a) Mrs. Tulliver asks her to intervene.
(b) She does not want people in town to hear that her family is quarreling over money.
(c) She hopes to borrow money from Mrs. Glegg herself.
(d) She does not like to have family members arguing with each other.

3. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?
(a) She considers it to be genuine and sincere.
(b) She considers it to be phony and contrived.
(c) She thinks it is intended to irritate the Dodson sisters.
(d) She feels that it is unnecessarily melodramatic.

4. Why does Philip's deformity make Maggie feel more tender toward him?
(a) She feels sorry for Philip because he is made fun of in the past.
(b) She lacks confidence in her ability to inspire love in anyone who is not deformed.
(c) She likes to have her love appreciated by those who are not used to it.
(d) She thinks the hunchback is very handsome.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom hurt his foot?

2. How does the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?

3. Why does Maggie dunk her head in a tub of water?

4. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?

5. Why do you think that George Eliot chooses to begin a new book, Book II, with the chapter in which Tom first goes away to school?

(see the answer key)

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