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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. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?
(a) A local lawyer, Wakem, is also sending his son to the same clergyman.
(b) There are recent improvements to the local school.
(c) Sending Tom to study with the clergyman is very expensive.
(d) The clergyman recently stops taking students.

2. 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.

3. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Mrs. Tulliver.
(c) Yap.
(d) Tom.

4. What kind of a job does Mr. Deane eventually find for Tom?
(a) A job working as a laborer on a farm.
(b) A job working in the mill.
(c) A bookkeeping job.
(d) A warehouse job.

5. What do the aunts and uncles think of Tom, now that he grows up?
(a) He should leave the Tullivers and live somewhere else.
(b) He becomes a credit to the family.
(c) He is an embarrassment to the family.
(d) He may be able to restore the Tullivers' good name.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?

2. Why has Philip come to see Maggie?

3. Why is Maggie happy to run into Philip?

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

5. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?

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