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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. 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.

2. How does Mrs. Glegg react to Mr. Tulliver's letter?
(a) She considers taking the Tulliver children out of her will.
(b) She complains bitterly to her sisters about Mr. Tulliver.
(c) She stops speaking to the Tullivers.
(d) She goes directly to the Tulliver home to speak with Mr. Tulliver in person.

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

4. 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 persuade him not to buy the mill.
(d) To convince him to give Tom a job.

5. What does Maggie think of Tom's lessons with Mr. Stelling when she visits?
(a) She hopes that Mr. Tulliver is happy with his investment in Tom's education.
(b) She is horrified by how hard Tom has to work in order to learn anything.
(c) She thinks that Tom's education is useless when he returns to St. Ogg's.
(d) She is delighted with the schoolwork and learns a lot herself while visiting.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Tom want to do to make more money?

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

5. What is Maggie's one indulgence during the period when she is nursing her father back to health?

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