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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 Mr. Tulliver feel is his strongest reason for staying and working at the mill?
(a) His wife asks him to.
(b) He lives there all his life and loves it.
(c) He has no other job.
(d) He hopes to pay off his debts.

2. Why does Maggie criticize the book, Corinne, which Philip brings to her?
(a) The story is too long.
(b) The book is dull.
(c) The heroine is blond.
(d) There is no moral.

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

4. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?
(a) He already has the money and pays Mrs. lregg back right away.
(b) He decides to go to Mrs. Glegg himself and ask her to wait a while longer for the money.
(c) He decides to borrow the money to pay Mrs. Glegg back.
(d) He tells Mrs. Pullet how grateful he is to have her help.

5. Which of the following character traits does the narrator feel is typical of the people of St. Ogg's?
(a) Superstitiousness.
(b) Grace.
(c) Courage.
(d) Callousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom figure out that Maggie is secretly meeting Philip?

2. Mr. Tulliver wakes up briefly to talk to Tom when Tom arrives home from Lorton. But what happens to him after that?

3. Why is Mr. Deane so skeptical about hiring Tom?

4. How does Tom hurt his foot?

5. How does their father's death affect Maggie and Tom's relationship?

(see the answer key)

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