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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Chapter 4 | Book 2: Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Riley recommend that Mr. Tulliver do about Tom's education?
(a) Send him to study with a parson.
(b) Send him to study with a lawyer.
(c) Send him to boarding school.
(d) Send him to the village school.

2. 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) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(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) Tom has a birthday.

3. How does Maggie de-stress when she is frustrated?
(a) She beats up an old wooden doll in the attic.
(b) She goes fishing with Tom.
(c) She gets into some kind of mischief.
(d) She goes swimming in the Floss.

4. 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.

5. What does the narrator think about the system of sending boys to study with independent schoolmasters, such as Mr. Stelling?
(a) She approves of the individual attention that boys get from these teachers.
(b) She thinks it is wrong for boys to leave their homes to go to school.
(c) She feels that girls should also go to school with independent schoolmasters.
(d) She thinks that it leaves a boy's education up to pure luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom have a hard time at school with Mr. Stelling?

2. Why does Philip's deformity make Maggie feel more tender toward him?

3. How does the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?

4. How does Maggie react when Tom takes Lucy to the pond and tells Maggie not to come?

5. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?

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