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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 agree to run the mill, even though Mr. Wakem now owns it ?
(a) He still loves the mill and wants to take care of it.
(b) The mill life is the only job he knows.
(c) He needs a way to provide for his family.
(d) He gets a promotion if he stays on at the mill.

2. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?
(a) He tells Mrs. Pullet how grateful he is to have her help.
(b) He decides to go to Mrs. Glegg himself and ask her to wait a while longer for the money.
(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.

3. 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.

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

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. Why do Tom and Philip become closer again for a little while while Tom is recovering from his injury?

2. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?

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

4. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?

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

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