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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 9 | Book 1: Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?
(a) He fears that Maggie is sorry to see Tom go away to school.
(b) He fears that Maggie is popular with the boys when she is older.
(c) He fears that Maggie's cleverness leads to trouble when she grows up and becomes a woman.
(d) He fears that Maggie never wants to leave home because she is so close to her parents.

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

3. How does Maggie react when Tom takes Lucy to the pond and tells Maggie not to come?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She pushes Lucy into the mud.
(c) She begins to fight with Tom.
(d) She jumps into the pond.

4. What member of Maggie's family indulges her the most?
(a) Her father, Mr. Tulliver.
(b) Her aunt, Mrs. Glegg.
(c) Her brother, Tom.
(d) Her mother, Mrs. Tulliver.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of the book is introduced in the first chapter?

3. What does Mr. Riley recommend that Mr. Tulliver do about Tom's education?

4. What do the Tullivers think of their daughter, Maggie?

5. Why do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters criticize Mr. Tulliver?

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