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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 does the narrator say it means when a young boy appears sheepish?
(a) He is in awe of your wisdom.
(b) He is carefully listening to what you say.
(c) He thinks you are strange.
(d) He is thinking of counterarguments to your views.

2. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?
(a) Mrs. Tulliver asks her to intervene.
(b) She hopes to borrow money from Mrs. Glegg herself.
(c) She does not want people in town to hear that her family is quarreling over money.
(d) She does not like to have family members arguing with each other.

3. What helps Mrs. Glegg to feel better about her argument with Mr. Glegg?
(a) He tells her that she is being foolish.
(b) He suggests that family is more important than money.
(c) He hints that he provides well for her in his will.
(d) He tells her that they are doing fine financially.

4. Why does Mrs. Tulliver not want Maggie to do any work that is hard on her hands?
(a) She still hopes for a good marriage for Maggie and wants her hands kept soft.
(b) She thinks of Maggie as her baby because she is the youngest.
(c) She fears that Maggie hurts herself doing hard work.
(d) She worries that Maggie gets the idea of looking for work as a housemaid.

5. Why does Maggie leap to Tom's defense while Mr. Tulliver discusses Tom's education with Mr. Riley?
(a) Mr. Tulliver says that he has something on his mind regarding Tom.
(b) Mr. Tulliver says that Tom is never likely to become much of a scholar.
(c) Mr. Tulliver says that if Tom is a miller, he turns Mr. Tulliver out of his own mill.
(d) Mr. Tulliver says that he does not mean for Tom to be a miller and a farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Tulliver do when he happens to run into Mr. Wakem after he pays off his other creditors?

2. Why does Mr. Wakem decide to buy the mill?

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

4. What is Maggie most shocked by when she arrives at home after accompanying Tom home from Lorton?

5. Why does Maggie continue to see Philip when she does not believe she is ever able to marry him?

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