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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6: Chapter 10 | Book 6: Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the prime moral value of the Dodsons?
(a) Respect for life in all forms.
(b) Delight in the goodness of life and of all human beings.
(c) Submission to the will of God.
(d) Revering what is customary and respectable.

2. What do Tom and Maggie both fear when Tom announces to his father that he is able to pay the debts?
(a) That the shock gives Mr. Tulliver a relapse.
(b) That Mr. Tulliver refuses to let Tom do it.
(c) That something happens to stop Tom from doing it.
(d) That Tom is tempted to tell his father about Maggie and Philip.

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

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 runs away.
(c) She jumps into the pond.
(d) She begins to fight with Tom.

5. What does Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?
(a) Provide a home for the family to go to after the property is sold.
(b) Offer a job to him and to Maggie, so they can support their parents.
(c) Help him to finish his education and Maggie to finish hers.
(d) Give money to him and Maggie right away, instead of leaving it to them in their wills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Uncle Deane tell Tom that he does well not to tell people how old he is?

2. What does Mr. Tulliver do when he happens to run into Mr. Wakem after he pays off his other creditors?

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

4. What happens to Maggie when she tries to hug Tom because she is so delighted by the music coming from the music box?

5. Why does Maggie ask Tom to release her from her promise not to see Philip?

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