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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Philip's deformity make Maggie feel more tender toward him?
(a) She feels sorry for Philip because he is made fun of in the past.
(b) She likes to have her love appreciated by those who are not used to it.
(c) She lacks confidence in her ability to inspire love in anyone who is not deformed.
(d) She thinks the hunchback is very handsome.

2. Why is Maggie nervous about seeing Tom when he comes home?
(a) She forgets to feed his rabbits and they die.
(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 fears that Tom is upset about being sent away to study.

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

4. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?
(a) He already has the money and pays Mrs. lregg back right away.
(b) He decides to borrow the money to pay Mrs. Glegg back.
(c) He tells Mrs. Pullet how grateful he is to have her help.
(d) He decides to go to Mrs. Glegg himself and ask her to wait a while longer for the money.

5. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?
(a) Self-righteous indignation.
(b) Tempestuous flow of emotions.
(c) Foolish nonsense.
(d) Oppressive narrowness.

6. Why does Mr. Wakem ask Mr. Tulliver to run the mill?
(a) It helpz him to get back on his feet again.
(b) It humiliatez him to work for Mr. Wakem.
(c) It is a way for Mr. Wakem to help the Tullivers.
(d) It givez Philip a chance to get to know Maggie again.

7. What does the narrator think about the system of sending boys to study with independent schoolmasters, such as Mr. Stelling?
(a) She feels that girls should also go to school with independent schoolmasters.
(b) She approves of the individual attention that boys get from these teachers.
(c) She thinks it is wrong for boys to leave their homes to go to school.
(d) She thinks that it leaves a boy's education up to pure luck.

8. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?
(a) She thinks it is intended to irritate the Dodson sisters.
(b) She considers it to be genuine and sincere.
(c) She considers it to be phony and contrived.
(d) She feels that it is unnecessarily melodramatic.

9. How does Tom react to his father's accident?
(a) He tells Maggie never to speak to Philip again.
(b) He decides to challenge Wakem to a duel.
(c) He tries to comfort his mother and sister.
(d) He looks for a job so he can support the family.

10. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?
(a) Tom and Philip both become interested in the same young woman.
(b) Tom and Philip fight over the mill's water rights.
(c) Tom makes fun of Philip's hunchback and insults his father.
(d) Philip makes fun of Tom's love of fishing and fighting.

11. 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) Learning that the family may have to go to a workhouse.
(c) Hearing her mother criticize her father's actions and choices.
(d) Seeing her father still lying in bed, insensible.

12. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?
(a) He fears that Maggie never wants to leave home because she is so close to her parents.
(b) He fears that Maggie is sorry to see Tom go away to school.
(c) He fears that Maggie is popular with the boys when she is older.
(d) He fears that Maggie's cleverness leads to trouble when she grows up and becomes a woman.

13. How does Mrs. Tulliver hope that her sisters help the family recover from bankruptcy?
(a) They buy back the furniture.
(b) They buy some of Mrs. Tulliver's dowry dishes and linens to keep them in the family.
(c) They help to pay off the mortgage on the house.
(d) They help Tom to find a job.

14. What does Tom say when Maggie offers to teach him about bookkeeping?
(a) He says that women are not supposed to teach men anything.
(b) He says that he is happy for her to teach him.
(c) He says that she cannot teach him because she does not know how to do anything.
(d) He says that she always tries to set herself up above everyone else.

15. Why does Mrs. Tulliver panic when she cannot find Maggie?
(a) She thinks that Maggie drowns in the pond.
(b) She thinks that Maggie runs away.
(c) She thinks that Maggie should apologize to Lucy.
(d) She thinks that Maggie is getting into trouble.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?

3. How does Mrs. Glegg react to Mr. Tulliver's letter?

4. What part of the book is introduced in the first chapter?

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

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