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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6: Chapter 6 | Book 6: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the prime moral value of the Dodsons?
(a) Revering what is customary and respectable.
(b) Submission to the will of God.
(c) Delight in the goodness of life and of all human beings.
(d) Respect for life in all forms.

2. What is Philip's main drawback, from Tom's point of view?
(a) He already learns most of what Tom is studying.
(b) He is not a pleasant person to spend time with.
(c) He does not care for fishing.
(d) He is the son of Tom's father's enemy, Mr. Wakem.

3. What does Mr. Tulliver force Tom to write on his own behalf in the Bible?
(a) That Tom exacts some revenge on Wakem, if he has the chance.
(b) That Tom takes care of his mother and sister as long as he lives.
(c) That Tom finds some other business to go into that is not as heartbreaking.
(d) That Tom takes care of the mill for as long as he lives.

4. Why does Philip begin to play the piano badly?
(a) He fears that Maggie and Stephen have feelings for each other.
(b) He plans to ask Maggie to run away with him.
(c) He is thinking about the last time he sees Maggie.
(d) He is feeling very tired after his long trip.

5. Why does Lucy have a confidential conversation with her father the same evening that Philip first comes to visit?
(a) She wants to distract Maggie from Stephen.
(b) She wants to warn him that Maggie and Philip may still love each other.
(c) She wants to buy the mill herself and have her family run it.
(d) She wants to ask him if there is any chance of buying the mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Tulliver feel vindicated in his choice to send Tom to study with Mr. Stelling?

2. How does Philip manage to get Tom excited about learning?

3. What does the narrator say is the most accurate depiction of the religion of the Tullivers and the other people who live in the village of St. Ogg's?

4. Why is Mr. Tulliver in such a bad mood at Christmas?

5. What does Mr. Tulliver feel is his strongest reason for staying and working at the mill?

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