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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. What does Mr. Riley recommend that Mr. Tulliver do about Tom's education?
(a) Send him to study with a parson.
(b) Send him to study with a lawyer.
(c) Send him to the village school.
(d) Send him to boarding school.

2. What do the Tullivers think of their daughter, Maggie?
(a) She is hardworking but dumb.
(b) She is obedient but foolish.
(c) She is smart and mischievous.
(d) She is pretty and docile.

3. Why does Mrs. Tulliver panic when she cannot find Maggie?
(a) She thinks that Maggie runs away.
(b) She thinks that Maggie should apologize to Lucy.
(c) She thinks that Maggie drowns in the pond.
(d) She thinks that Maggie is getting into trouble.

4. Why is it hard on Maggie to have her aunts and uncles and cousins come to visit?
(a) Her cousin Lucy does not like to play with Maggie.
(b) Maggie wants to have Tom all to herself.
(c) Her cousin Lucy is much more docile and obedient than Maggie.
(d) Maggie does not like her aunts and uncles and cousins.

5. 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) Sending Tom to study with the clergyman is very expensive.
(c) There are recent improvements to the local school.
(d) A local lawyer, Wakem, is also sending his son to the same clergyman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Tulliver planning to send away to school?

2. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?

3. What surprise does Tom bring back for Maggie from school?

4. How does Maggie react when Tom takes Lucy to the pond and tells Maggie not to come?

5. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?

(see the answer key)

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