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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. Tulliver agree to run the mill, even though Mr. Wakem now owns it ?
(a) He needs a way to provide for his family.
(b) The mill life is the only job he knows.
(c) He gets a promotion if he stays on at the mill.
(d) He still loves the mill and wants to take care of it.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Maggie think of Tom's lessons with Mr. Stelling when she visits?

3. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?

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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