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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: Chapter 7 | Book 6: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom think of Maggie?
(a) He competes with her for attention in the family.
(b) He thinks that she should be more ladylike.
(c) He thinks she is silly, but is fond of her.
(d) He admires her because of her intelligence.

2. Why does Mr. Wakem decide to buy the mill?
(a) He wants revenge against Mr. Tulliver.
(b) He feels responsible for the Tulliver family.
(c) He views it as a good business investment.
(d) He wants to run a mill.

3. What does Tom say when Maggie offers to teach him about bookkeeping?
(a) He says that she always tries to set herself up above everyone else.
(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 cannot teach him because she does not know how to do anything.

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

5. Why do Philip and Maggie think that they cannot be together?
(a) They do not really love each other that much.
(b) They cannot afford to set up a household.
(c) It upsets their families.
(d) The townspeople gossip about them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of education does Tom need, if he wants Mr. Deane to help him?

2. Why does Mr. Tulliver agree to run the mill, even though Mr. Wakem now owns it ?

3. How does Tom hurt his foot?

4. How does Tom force Maggie to stop seeing Philip?

5. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?

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