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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6: Chapter 8 | Book 6: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Philip and Maggie become close?
(a) Maggie begins to study with Philip.
(b) Maggie and Philip are united in their dislike of swords.
(c) They go for walks together around the village.
(d) They spend a lot of time together while Tom is recovering.

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

3. What do the aunts and uncles think of Tom, now that he grows up?
(a) He is an embarrassment to the family.
(b) He should leave the Tullivers and live somewhere else.
(c) He becomes a credit to the family.
(d) He may be able to restore the Tullivers' good name.

4. What moment in the book does the narrator say is the most delicious of Tom's life?
(a) The moment when Bob first suggests the trading scheme to Tom.
(b) The moment when he tells his father he pays the family debts.
(c) The moment when he tells Maggie that he knows about her meetings with Philip.
(d) The moment when Mr. Tulliver first comes out of his coma.

5. Why does Maggie pore over the pages of a book while she is waiting for Lucy to return?
(a) It gives her something to do and she is feeling bored.
(b) It is a way to hide her face while she is crying.
(c) She wants to give the impression of only being interested in books.
(d) She is fascinated by the book and cannot put it down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Mrs. Glegg get angry with Mr. Glegg the morning after they come home from visiting the Tullivers?

3. Why does Uncle Deane tell Tom that he does well not to tell people how old he is?

4. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?

5. What is Maggie's one indulgence during the period when she is nursing her father back to health?

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