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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 do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?
(a) The clergyman recently stops taking students.
(b) A local lawyer, Wakem, is also sending his son to the same clergyman.
(c) There are recent improvements to the local school.
(d) Sending Tom to study with the clergyman is very expensive.

2. How does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?
(a) She cuts it.
(b) She brushes it.
(c) She braids it and puts a hat on.
(d) She sticks her head in a bucket of water.

3. Why does Mr. Tulliver want Tom to study drawing?
(a) So that he is well-rounded, understanding art as well as math and language.
(b) So that he entertains himself at times when he is bored.
(c) So that he becomes a good draftsman of buildings and bridges.
(d) So that he someday becomes an artist.

4. How does Tom figure out that Maggie is secretly meeting Philip?
(a) He sees her face when Aunt Pullet mentions seeing Philip leaving the Red Deep.
(b) He sees Maggie and Philip together.
(c) He finds a book that Philip loans to Maggie.
(d) He finds a letter that Maggie writes to Philip.

5. Why does looking at the new bonnet make Mrs. Tulliver and Mrs. Pullet so sad?
(a) The bonnet is not fashionable any more.
(b) The bonnet is crushed in the closet and ruined.
(c) Mrs. Pullet speculates that she may not live to wear the bonnet in a second season.
(d) Mrs. Tulliver wishes that she has a similar bonnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?

2. Why does Maggie dunk her head in a tub of water?

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

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

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

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