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

2. 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.

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

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

5. How does Tom hurt his foot?
(a) He sprains it fighting with Philip.
(b) He falls down a flight of stairs.
(c) He cuts it with the sword he borrows from Mr. Poulter.
(d) He steps on a rusty nail sticking out of an old bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does looking at the new bonnet make Mrs. Tulliver and Mrs. Pullet so sad?

2. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?

3. 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?

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

5. Why do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters criticize Mr. Tulliver?

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