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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Chapter 1 | Book 3: Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?
(a) She does not like to have family members arguing with each other.
(b) She does not want people in town to hear that her family is quarreling over money.
(c) She hopes to borrow money from Mrs. Glegg herself.
(d) Mrs. Tulliver asks her to intervene.

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

3. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?
(a) Mrs. Tulliver.
(b) Tom.
(c) Yap.
(d) Maggie.

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

5. Why do Tom and his friend Bob fight?
(a) Each thinks the other cheats at a coin flip.
(b) Bob thinks Tom does not bring him along on his "Noah's Ark".
(c) One wants to go fishing and the other does not want to.
(d) Tom feels that Bob insults Maggie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps Mrs. Glegg to feel better about her argument with Mr. Glegg?

2. How does Mrs. Tulliver hope that her sisters help the family recover from bankruptcy?

3. How does Tom spend his afternoon on the day that he gets home?

4. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?

5. What does the narrator think about the system of sending boys to study with independent schoolmasters, such as Mr. Stelling?

(see the answer key)

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