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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. 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?
(a) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(b) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(c) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.
(d) Tom has a birthday.

2. How does Mrs. Tulliver hope that her sisters help the family recover from bankruptcy?
(a) They buy back the furniture.
(b) They help to pay off the mortgage on the house.
(c) They buy some of Mrs. Tulliver's dowry dishes and linens to keep them in the family.
(d) They help Tom to find a job.

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

4. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?
(a) He thinks about how he feels in Mr. Moss's position.
(b) He wants Tom to be generous with Maggie if she ever needs it.
(c) He remembers that the Mosses have a lot of expenses to pay.
(d) He realizes that he doesn't really need the money that badly.

5. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?
(a) Philip makes fun of Tom's love of fishing and fighting.
(b) Tom makes fun of Philip's hunchback and insults his father.
(c) Tom and Philip both become interested in the same young woman.
(d) Tom and Philip fight over the mill's water rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Philip's main drawback, from Tom's point of view?

2. How does Tom react to his father's accident?

3. Why is it hard on Maggie to have her aunts and uncles and cousins come to visit?

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

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

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