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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Chapter 5 | Book 3: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character trait explains why Tom and Maggie won't take Bob's money?
(a) Pride.
(b) Avarice.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Ignorance.

2. What is Mr. Tulliver's main regret about his children?
(a) His daughter, not his son, is most like him.
(b) His children do not get along with each other.
(c) His son, not his daughter, is most like him.
(d) His children do not do chores around the house.

3. What does Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?
(a) Help him to finish his education and Maggie to finish hers.
(b) Give money to him and Maggie right away, instead of leaving it to them in their wills.
(c) Provide a home for the family to go to after the property is sold.
(d) Offer a job to him and to Maggie, so they can support their parents.

4. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?
(a) She becomes compassionate, even toward a woman she never likes, Mrs. Stelling.
(b) She puts her own feelings aside in order to comfort Tom.
(c) She learns that tragedy can befall anyone at any time.
(d) She realizes that she has to support her family financially in some way.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Tullivers think of their daughter, Maggie?

3. Why do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters criticize Mr. Tulliver?

4. Why is it particularly bad timing for Mr. Tulliver to lose the lawsuit?

5. 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?

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