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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 humiliatez him to work for Mr. Wakem.
(c) It givez Philip a chance to get to know Maggie again.
(d) It helpz him to get back on his feet again.

2. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?
(a) She learns that tragedy can befall anyone at any time.
(b) She puts her own feelings aside in order to comfort Tom.
(c) She becomes compassionate, even toward a woman she never likes, Mrs. Stelling.
(d) She realizes that she has to support her family financially in some way.

3. What does Tom want to do to make more money?
(a) Get a second job.
(b) Trade, by sending cargo out to foreign ports.
(c) Speculate by investing in businesses.
(d) Go back to school to get a better education.

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

5. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?
(a) She hopes to borrow money from Mrs. Glegg herself.
(b) Mrs. Tulliver asks her to intervene.
(c) She does not like to have family members arguing with each other.
(d) She does not want people in town to hear that her family is quarreling over money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?

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

3. Why is Maggie happy to run into Philip?

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?

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

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