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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. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?
(a) She becomes compassionate, even toward a woman she never likes, Mrs. Stelling.
(b) She learns that tragedy can befall anyone at any time.
(c) She puts her own feelings aside in order to comfort Tom.
(d) She realizes that she has to support her family financially in some way.

2. What does Tom want to do to make more money?
(a) Go back to school to get a better education.
(b) Get a second job.
(c) Speculate by investing in businesses.
(d) Trade, by sending cargo out to foreign ports.

3. Which of the following character traits does the narrator feel is typical of the people of St. Ogg's?
(a) Grace.
(b) Superstitiousness.
(c) Callousness.
(d) Courage.

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?
(a) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(b) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.
(c) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(d) Tom has a birthday.

5. Where has Tom wanted Maggie to live as long as she remains unmarried?
(a) With their aunt Pullet.
(b) At home with their mother.
(c) With friends at St. Ogg's.
(d) With their cousin Lucy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Tulliver wakes up briefly to talk to Tom when Tom arrives home from Lorton. But what happens to him after that?

2. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?

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

4. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?

5. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?

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