1. What does Maggie think of Tom's lessons with Mr. Stelling when she visits?
(a) She is horrified by how hard Tom has to work in order to learn anything.
(b) She hopes that Mr. Tulliver is happy with his investment in Tom's education.
(c) She is delighted with the schoolwork and learns a lot herself while visiting.
(d) She thinks that Tom's education is useless when he returns to St. Ogg's.

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

3. 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 the village school.
(d) Send him to boarding school.

4. How does Maggie react when Tom takes Lucy to the pond and tells Maggie not to come?
(a) She pushes Lucy into the mud.
(b) She jumps into the pond.
(c) She begins to fight with Tom.
(d) She runs away.

5. Why does Maggie leap to Tom's defense while Mr. Tulliver discusses Tom's education with Mr. Riley?
(a) Mr. Tulliver says that he has something on his mind regarding Tom.
(b) Mr. Tulliver says that he does not mean for Tom to be a miller and a farmer.
(c) Mr. Tulliver says that if Tom is a miller, he turns Mr. Tulliver out of his own mill.
(d) Mr. Tulliver says that Tom is never likely to become much of a scholar.