View a FREE sample

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 is Maggie's one indulgence during the period when she is nursing her father back to health?
(a) The newspaper.
(b) Her daily walk.
(c) Fresh fruit.
(d) The company of friends.

2. Why does Mr. Wakem decide to buy the mill?
(a) He feels responsible for the Tulliver family.
(b) He wants to run a mill.
(c) He wants revenge against Mr. Tulliver.
(d) He views it as a good business investment.

3. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?
(a) To support him as he takes on the running of the mill.
(b) To ask him to help the family.
(c) To convince him to give Tom a job.
(d) To persuade him not to buy the mill.

4. Why does Mr. Tulliver advise Maggie and Tom not to become too close to Philip?
(a) Because he is Mr. Wakem's son.
(b) Because he is older than they are.
(c) Because he is a hunchback.
(d) Because he does not inherit any property.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Tulliver agree to run the mill, even though Mr. Wakem now owns it ?

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

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

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

5. Why has Philip come to see Maggie?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 444 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample