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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Maggie shocked to notice after the sale?
(a) Bob arrives to offer what little he can.
(b) Her father is moved.
(c) Her mother's linens are gone.
(d) Even the books are gone.

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

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

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

7. Why does Mr. Tulliver agree to run the mill, even though Mr. Wakem now owns it ?
(a) The mill life is the only job he knows.
(b) He needs a way to provide for his family.
(c) He still loves the mill and wants to take care of it.
(d) He gets a promotion if he stays on at the mill.

8. Why does Maggie run away to live with the gypsies?
(a) She is often been told that she is wild like a gypsy.
(b) She wants to buy something from the gypsies.
(c) She wants to visit a friend who is a gypsy.
(d) She hopes the gypsies take her along when they leave town.

9. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?
(a) She realizes that she has to support her family financially in some way.
(b) She becomes compassionate, even toward a woman she never likes, Mrs. Stelling.
(c) She puts her own feelings aside in order to comfort Tom.
(d) She learns that tragedy can befall anyone at any time.

10. Why is it particularly bad timing for Mr. Tulliver to lose the lawsuit?
(a) He has listed his household furniture as security to pay a debt.
(b) He is just about to expand the mill.
(c) He is hoping to take out a second mortgage on his property.
(d) He hopes to be able to afford to keep Tom in school.

11. Why does Mr. Wakem decide to buy the mill?
(a) He wants revenge against Mr. Tulliver.
(b) He feels responsible for the Tulliver family.
(c) He views it as a good business investment.
(d) He wants to run a mill.

12. What do the Tullivers think of their daughter, Maggie?
(a) She is pretty and docile.
(b) She is obedient but foolish.
(c) She is smart and mischievous.
(d) She is hardworking but dumb.

13. What does Maggie discover when she finds the gypsies?
(a) She admires them greatly.
(b) She finds out that they are planning to travel away from the village.
(c) She does not like them.
(d) She realizes that they just take her home again.

14. Why does Mr. Tulliver want Tom to study drawing?
(a) So that he someday becomes an artist.
(b) So that he becomes a good draftsman of buildings and bridges.
(c) So that he entertains himself at times when he is bored.
(d) So that he is well-rounded, understanding art as well as math and language.

15. What is Philip's main drawback, from Tom's point of view?
(a) He is the son of Tom's father's enemy, Mr. Wakem.
(b) He is not a pleasant person to spend time with.
(c) He already learns most of what Tom is studying.
(d) He does not care for fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a job does Mr. Deane eventually find for Tom?

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

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

4. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?

5. What does the narrator say is the prime moral value of the Dodsons?

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