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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. When Mr. Tulliver wakes up, what does he tell Tom to do about the family's bankruptcy?
(a) Get a job working as a schoolmaster.
(b) Go back to school at all costs.
(c) Try to find a way to save the mill.
(d) Destroy Moss's note and pay Luke what is owed to him.

2. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?
(a) She considers it to be genuine and sincere.
(b) She thinks it is intended to irritate the Dodson sisters.
(c) She considers it to be phony and contrived.
(d) She feels that it is unnecessarily melodramatic.

3. Why does Mr. Tulliver fall off his horse?
(a) He has a heart attack while riding his horse.
(b) He is shocked to learn that Mr. Wakem already holds his mortgage.
(c) His horse loses its footing in the mud.
(d) He is intoxicated after drinking too much in response to the lawsuit's completion.

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

5. Mr. Tulliver wakes up briefly to talk to Tom when Tom arrives home from Lorton. But what happens to him after that?
(a) He is fully restored to his senses.
(b) He realizes that he is paralyzed from the waist down.
(c) He has a premonition that he is going to die soon.
(d) He lapses back into a coma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maggie shocked to notice after the sale?

2. What does Tom think of Maggie?

3. Why does Maggie dunk her head in a tub of water?

4. How do Philip and Maggie become close?

5. Why does Mr. Tulliver want Tom to study drawing?

(see the answer key)

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