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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 Tom react when he is offered a share in the business at Guest and Company?
(a) He declines the offer and starts his own business instead.
(b) He immediately accepts.
(c) He asks his uncle to buy the old mill instead.
(d) He tells his uncle he'd rather wait a few more years first.

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

3. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?
(a) He wants Tom to be generous with Maggie if she ever needs it.
(b) He remembers that the Mosses have a lot of expenses to pay.
(c) He realizes that he doesn't really need the money that badly.
(d) He thinks about how he feels in Mr. Moss's position.

4. Why has Philip come to see Maggie?
(a) He wants to be friends.
(b) He wants to do something to help.
(c) He has a message from his father.
(d) He brings something for her family.

5. When Philip asks Maggie if she still has feelings for him, what does she give as her reason why she cannot marry him?
(a) She upsets the memory of her dead father.
(b) She is falling in love with Stephen.
(c) She is planning to go away to a teaching job.
(d) She loses her brother as a result.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the most accurate depiction of the religion of the Tullivers and the other people who live in the village of St. Ogg's?

2. How does Tom react, at first, to Maggie's request that she is allowed to see Philip?

3. What does Maggie tell Lucy is her reason for leaving St. Ogg's and taking another teaching job?

4. What does Maggie think of Tom's lessons with Mr. Stelling when she visits?

5. What does Tom want to do to make more money?

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