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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 admires them greatly.
(b) She realizes that they just take her home again.
(c) She does not like them.
(d) She finds out that they are planning to travel away from the village.

2. What does the narrator say it means when a young boy appears sheepish?
(a) He is in awe of your wisdom.
(b) He is thinking of counterarguments to your views.
(c) He thinks you are strange.
(d) He is carefully listening to what you say.

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

4. Who is Mr. Tulliver planning to send away to school?
(a) His niece, Lucy.
(b) His daughter, Maggie.
(c) His son, Tom.
(d) His wife, Mrs. Tulliver.

5. What helps Mrs. Glegg to feel better about her argument with Mr. Glegg?
(a) He tells her that they are doing fine financially.
(b) He tells her that she is being foolish.
(c) He hints that he provides well for her in his will.
(d) He suggests that family is more important than money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?

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

4. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?

5. What does Tom think of Maggie?

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