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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 borrow the money to pay Mrs. Glegg back.
(b) He already has the money and pays Mrs. lregg back right away.
(c) He decides to go to Mrs. Glegg himself and ask her to wait a while longer for the money.
(d) He tells Mrs. Pullet how grateful he is to have her help.

2. Why does Tom have a hard time at school with Mr. Stelling?
(a) He misses his family at home in St. Ogg's.
(b) He does not like living with Mr. Stelling.
(c) He does not like to work and would rather go fishing.
(d) He is not good at learning things like geometry and Latin.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mrs. Glegg react to Mr. Tulliver's letter?

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

4. Why does Mr. Tulliver advise Maggie and Tom not to become too close to Philip?

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

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