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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7: Chapter 4 | Book 7: Chapter 5.

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 sits with her mother and tries to cheer her up.
(c) She talks with Bob whenever he comes to visit.
(d) She visits all her old childhood haunts in the neighborhood.

2. 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 lapses back into a coma.
(c) He realizes that he is paralyzed from the waist down.
(d) He has a premonition that he is going to die soon.

3. What character trait explains why Tom and Maggie won't take Bob's money?
(a) Pride.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Avarice.
(d) Ignorance.

4. Why does Maggie ask Tom to release her from her promise not to see Philip?
(a) Lucy thinks that Philip is a good friend for Maggie.
(b) Maggie hopes that since their father is dead, things change.
(c) Maggie cannot bear to be away from Philip.
(d) Lucy wants to invite Philip to her house.

5. What does Philip argue with his father, Mr. Wakem, about?
(a) He tells his father that he is in love with Maggie.
(b) He tries to convince his father to sell the mill.
(c) He argues that the dispute with the Tullivers should be set aside.
(d) He tells his father that he wants to get a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie discover when she finds the gypsies?

2. What does Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?

3. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?

4. Why does Mrs. Tulliver not want Maggie to do any work that is hard on her hands?

5. Why do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters criticize Mr. Tulliver?

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