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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. How do we know that Maggie tends to be rambunctious?
(a) She is always getting her clothes dirty.
(b) She manages to stay neat and clean.
(c) She likes to read books.
(d) She sits still to have her hair combed.

2. What is Maggie most shocked by when she arrives at home after accompanying Tom home from Lorton?
(a) Seeing her father still lying in bed, insensible.
(b) Seeing her aunts buying the family linens.
(c) Hearing her mother criticize her father's actions and choices.
(d) Learning that the family may have to go to a workhouse.

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

4. Why does Mrs. Glegg decide to let Mr. Tulliver keep the money a while longer?
(a) She does not want to cause problems for her sister's family.
(b) She regrets fighting with Mr. Tulliver and with Mr. Glegg about money.
(c) She does not really need the money.
(d) She is getting a good rate of interest from him.

5. What does Tom say when Maggie offers to teach him about bookkeeping?
(a) He says that she cannot teach him because she does not know how to do anything.
(b) He says that he is happy for her to teach him.
(c) He says that women are not supposed to teach men anything.
(d) He says that she always tries to set herself up above everyone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Mrs. Moss do when she arrives?

3. What does Tom think of Maggie?

4. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?

5. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?

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