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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. Wakem ask Mr. Tulliver to run the mill?
(a) It is a way for Mr. Wakem to help the Tullivers.
(b) It helpz him to get back on his feet again.
(c) It humiliatez him to work for Mr. Wakem.
(d) It givez Philip a chance to get to know Maggie again.

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

3. How does the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?
(a) Like a bright, sharp knife blade.
(b) Like a rough, dark, overgrown puppy.
(c) Like a newly blossomed rose.
(d) Like a cold, clear shaft of ice.

4. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?
(a) She praises his daughter, Maggie.
(b) She offers him a piece of pie.
(c) She praises his son, Tom.
(d) She reminds him of their childhood together.

5. 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) Tom has a birthday.
(b) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(c) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(d) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?

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

3. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?

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

5. Which part of the news about the family finances shocks Mr. Tulliver the most when he first regains his senses after the accident?

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