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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mr. Tulliver planning to send away to school?
(a) His niece, Lucy.
(b) His daughter, Maggie.
(c) His wife, Mrs. Tulliver.
(d) His son, Tom.

2. How do we know that Maggie tends to be rambunctious?
(a) She manages to stay neat and clean.
(b) She sits still to have her hair combed.
(c) She likes to read books.
(d) She is always getting her clothes dirty.

3. 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 thinks that it leaves a boy's education up to pure luck.
(c) She approves of the individual attention that boys get from these teachers.
(d) She thinks it is wrong for boys to leave their homes to go to school.

4. How does the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?
(a) Like a rough, dark, overgrown puppy.
(b) Like a cold, clear shaft of ice.
(c) Like a newly blossomed rose.
(d) Like a bright, sharp knife blade.

5. To whom does Tom go for advice about getting a job?
(a) His father's friend, Riley.
(b) His uncle Deane.
(c) His teacher, Mr. Stelling.
(d) The lawyer, Mr. Wakem.

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

7. Why does Mr. Tulliver fall off his horse?
(a) He is shocked to learn that Mr. Wakem already holds his mortgage.
(b) He is intoxicated after drinking too much in response to the lawsuit's completion.
(c) His horse loses its footing in the mud.
(d) He has a heart attack while riding his horse.

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

9. How does Maggie de-stress when she is frustrated?
(a) She goes swimming in the Floss.
(b) She beats up an old wooden doll in the attic.
(c) She gets into some kind of mischief.
(d) She goes fishing with Tom.

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

11. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?
(a) He thinks about how he feels in Mr. Moss's position.
(b) He realizes that he doesn't really need the money that badly.
(c) He remembers that the Mosses have a lot of expenses to pay.
(d) He wants Tom to be generous with Maggie if she ever needs it.

12. How do Philip and Maggie become close?
(a) They spend a lot of time together while Tom is recovering.
(b) Maggie and Philip are united in their dislike of swords.
(c) Maggie begins to study with Philip.
(d) They go for walks together around the village.

13. What does Mr. Tulliver feel is his strongest reason for staying and working at the mill?
(a) He hopes to pay off his debts.
(b) He has no other job.
(c) His wife asks him to.
(d) He lives there all his life and loves it.

14. Why does looking at the new bonnet make Mrs. Tulliver and Mrs. Pullet so sad?
(a) The bonnet is not fashionable any more.
(b) The bonnet is crushed in the closet and ruined.
(c) Mrs. Tulliver wishes that she has a similar bonnet.
(d) Mrs. Pullet speculates that she may not live to wear the bonnet in a second season.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maggie think of Tom's lessons with Mr. Stelling when she visits?

2. Why is Mr. Deane so skeptical about hiring Tom?

3. Why is it hard on Maggie to have her aunts and uncles and cousins come to visit?

4. Why do you think that George Eliot chooses to begin a new book, Book II, with the chapter in which Tom first goes away to school?

5. What do the Tullivers think of their daughter, Maggie?

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