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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 does Maggie try to stem her loneliness while she is living at home and nursing her father back to health?
(a) She finds Tom's old schoolbooks and begins to study them.
(b) She talks with Bob whenever he comes to visit.
(c) She visits all her old childhood haunts in the neighborhood.
(d) She sits with her mother and tries to cheer her up.

2. What does the narrator say is the prime moral value of the Dodsons?
(a) Submission to the will of God.
(b) Delight in the goodness of life and of all human beings.
(c) Revering what is customary and respectable.
(d) Respect for life in all forms.

3. Why do Tom and Philip become closer again for a little while while Tom is recovering from his injury?
(a) They both realize how silly their quarrel is.
(b) Tom apologizes to Philip for the things he says before.
(c) Philip is kind to Tom while he recovers from his injury.
(d) They both love Maggie.

4. What does Maggie discover when she finds the gypsies?
(a) She realizes that they just take her home again.
(b) She does not like them.
(c) She admires them greatly.
(d) She finds out that they are planning to travel away from the village.

5. Why does Maggie resolve never to see Philip again?
(a) She thinks that he has something to do with her family's bankruptcy.
(b) Her family does not approve.
(c) She does not like him very well.
(d) She supposes that he must have many other things to do with his time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Philip's deformity make Maggie feel more tender toward him?

3. Why is Mr. Tulliver in such a bad mood at Christmas?

4. How does Tom feel about the argument with Philip?

5. How does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?

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