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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Chapter 13 | Book 2: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maggie discover when she finds the gypsies?
(a) She does not like them.
(b) She finds out that they are planning to travel away from the village.
(c) She realizes that they just take her home again.
(d) She admires them greatly.

2. 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 does not like her aunts and uncles and cousins.
(c) Her cousin Lucy is much more docile and obedient than Maggie.
(d) Maggie wants to have Tom all to herself.

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

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

5. Why does Maggie leap to Tom's defense while Mr. Tulliver discusses Tom's education with Mr. Riley?
(a) Mr. Tulliver says that he has something on his mind regarding Tom.
(b) Mr. Tulliver says that if Tom is a miller, he turns Mr. Tulliver out of his own mill.
(c) Mr. Tulliver says that he does not mean for Tom to be a miller and a farmer.
(d) Mr. Tulliver says that Tom is never likely to become much of a scholar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Glegg get angry with Mr. Glegg the morning after they come home from visiting the Tullivers?

2. How do we know that Maggie tends to be rambunctious?

3. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?

4. What does Tom think of Maggie?

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

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