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

2. What surprise does Tom bring back for Maggie from school?
(a) A bird's nest.
(b) A new fishing line.
(c) A kitten.
(d) Some marbles.

3. Why does Mrs. Glegg get angry with Mr. Glegg the morning after they come home from visiting the Tullivers?
(a) She feels that he is not careful enough about money.
(b) She feels he does not support her in the argument with Mr. Tulliver.
(c) She feels that he does not allow her to visit her sister often enough.
(d) She feels that he does not do enough chores around the house.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie discover when she finds the gypsies?

2. How does Mrs. Glegg react to Mr. Tulliver's letter?

3. What does the narrator say it means when a young boy appears sheepish?

4. 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?

5. How does Maggie de-stress when she is frustrated?

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