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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. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?
(a) Philip makes fun of Tom's love of fishing and fighting.
(b) Tom makes fun of Philip's hunchback and insults his father.
(c) Tom and Philip both become interested in the same young woman.
(d) Tom and Philip fight over the mill's water rights.

2. How do we know that Tom is a very able employee?
(a) Tom insists on continuing to invest money in entrepreneurial schemes.
(b) He is offered a share of the business at Guest and Company.
(c) He is earning a good income for his family.
(d) Tom says that he feels he is doing a good job.

3. Why does Mr. Tulliver advise Maggie and Tom not to become too close to Philip?
(a) Because he does not inherit any property.
(b) Because he is a hunchback.
(c) Because he is older than they are.
(d) Because he is Mr. Wakem's son.

4. Who does Maggie finally confide in about her feelings for Stephen?
(a) Her aunt Moss.
(b) Mrs. Tulliver.
(c) Philip.
(d) Lucy.

5. Why is Maggie nervous about seeing Tom when he comes home?
(a) She fears that Tom is upset about being sent away to study.
(b) She forgets to feed his rabbits and they die.
(c) She wants to convince him to take her fishing with him.
(d) She thinks he forgets about her since he is away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Wakem ask Mr. Tulliver to run the mill?

2. 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?

3. How do Philip and Maggie become close?

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

5. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?

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