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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. How do Maggie and Stephen react to their growing interest in each other?
(a) They try to ignore each other and focus on Maggie.
(b) They spend as much time together as they can.
(c) They begin to write each other letters.
(d) They start meeting secretly.

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

3. What is Mr. Tulliver's opinion of lawyers?
(a) He wishes that he can afford to hire one.
(b) He considers them to be rascals.
(c) He admires them and wants Tom to become one.
(d) He thinks that they are beneath his social station.

4. Why is Maggie admitted to society and invited to social events that are thought to be above her station?
(a) Maggie's mother takes it upon herself to make sure that Maggie is included.
(b) Lucy and Stephen want her to be included, so others include her.
(c) Maggie is assertive about making sure that she is included.
(d) Lucy personally asks her friends to invite Maggie to events.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What action makes Maggie and Stephen particularly conscious of their attraction to each other?

2. What is Philip's main drawback, from Tom's point of view?

3. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?

4. Why does Lucy have a confidential conversation with her father the same evening that Philip first comes to visit?

5. When they finally meet again, what tool does Philip use to try to remind Maggie of their love for each other?

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