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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: Chapter 1 | Book 5: Chapter 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why does Mr. Tulliver advise Maggie and Tom not to become too close to Philip?
(a) Because he is a hunchback.
(b) Because he is older than they are.
(c) Because he does not inherit any property.
(d) Because he is Mr. Wakem's son.
2. What is Maggie's one indulgence during the period when she is nursing her father back to health?
(a) Fresh fruit.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) The company of friends.
(d) Her daily walk.
3. Why has Philip come to see Maggie?
(a) He brings something for her family.
(b) He wants to do something to help.
(c) He has a message from his father.
(d) He wants to be friends.
4. 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?
(a) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(b) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(c) Tom has a birthday.
(d) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.
5. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?
(a) To ask him to help the family.
(b) To support him as he takes on the running of the mill.
(c) To convince him to give Tom a job.
(d) To persuade him not to buy the mill.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?
2. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?
3. How does Tom come up with capital to finance his venture with Bob?
4. How do Philip and Maggie become close?
5. Why does Tom have a hard time at school with Mr. Stelling?
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