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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. What is Maggie most shocked by when she arrives at home after accompanying Tom home from Lorton?
(a) Seeing her aunts buying the family linens.
(b) Hearing her mother criticize her father's actions and choices.
(c) Learning that the family may have to go to a workhouse.
(d) Seeing her father still lying in bed, insensible.

2. When Mr. Tulliver wakes up, what does he tell Tom to do about the family's bankruptcy?
(a) Get a job working as a schoolmaster.
(b) Go back to school at all costs.
(c) Destroy Moss's note and pay Luke what is owed to him.
(d) Try to find a way to save the mill.

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 becomes a credit to the family.
(c) He may be able to restore the Tullivers' good name.
(d) He should leave the Tullivers and live somewhere else.

4. Why is Maggie nervous about seeing Tom when he comes home?
(a) She fears that Tom is upset about being sent away to study.
(b) She wants to convince him to take her fishing with him.
(c) She thinks he forgets about her since he is away.
(d) She forgets to feed his rabbits and they die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Tom and Philip become closer again for a little while while Tom is recovering from his injury?

2. What happens to Maggie when she tries to hug Tom because she is so delighted by the music coming from the music box?

3. What idea occurs to Stephen once he is alone in the boat with Maggie?

4. Why is it particularly bad timing for Mr. Tulliver to lose the lawsuit?

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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