The Mill on the Floss Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Mill on the Floss Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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 5: Chapter 7 | Book 6: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Tulliver feel is his strongest reason for staying and working at the mill?
(a) He lives there all his life and loves it.
(b) He has no other job.
(c) He hopes to pay off his debts.
(d) His wife asks him to.

2. What part of the book is introduced in the first chapter?
(a) The theme.
(b) The setting.
(c) The plot.
(d) The main characters.

3. Which part of the news about the family finances shocks Mr. Tulliver the most when he first regains his senses after the accident?
(a) The realization that he cannot pay back his debts.
(b) The realization that he is bankrupt.
(c) The realization that most of his goods are sold.
(d) The realization that he cannot afford to keep Tom in school.

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

5. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?
(a) She realizes that she has to support her family financially in some way.
(b) She learns that tragedy can befall anyone at any time.
(c) She becomes compassionate, even toward a woman she never likes, Mrs. Stelling.
(d) She puts her own feelings aside in order to comfort Tom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does their father's death affect Maggie and Tom's relationship?

2. What does Mr. Riley recommend that Mr. Tulliver do about Tom's education?

3. Why does Mrs. Tulliver not want Maggie to do any work that is hard on her hands?

4. Why is Mr. Deane so skeptical about hiring Tom?

5. Why does Maggie come to get Tom at school during his last quarter at King's Lorton?

(see the answer key)

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