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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 forgets to feed his rabbits and they die.
(c) She wants to convince him to take her fishing with him.
(d) She thinks he forgets about her since he is away.

2. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?
(a) The clergyman recently stops taking students.
(b) There are recent improvements to the local school.
(c) A local lawyer, Wakem, is also sending his son to the same clergyman.
(d) Sending Tom to study with the clergyman is very expensive.

3. What does the narrator say is the most accurate depiction of the religion of the Tullivers and the other people who live in the village of St. Ogg's?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Judaism.

4. What is Mr. Tulliver's main regret about his children?
(a) His son, not his daughter, is most like him.
(b) His children do not get along with each other.
(c) His children do not do chores around the house.
(d) His daughter, not his son, is most like him.

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

6. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?
(a) To convince him to give Tom a job.
(b) To persuade him not to buy the mill.
(c) To support him as he takes on the running of the mill.
(d) To ask him to help the family.

7. Why does Maggie leap to Tom's defense while Mr. Tulliver discusses Tom's education with Mr. Riley?
(a) Mr. Tulliver says that he does not mean for Tom to be a miller and a farmer.
(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 has something on his mind regarding Tom.

8. Why does Maggie dunk her head in a tub of water?
(a) She spills something on her hair.
(b) She is trying to make her mother think that she takes a bath.
(c) She is too hot and wants to cool off.
(d) She does not want her mother to try to curl it.

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

10. What does Mr. Tulliver force Tom to write on his own behalf in the Bible?
(a) That Tom finds some other business to go into that is not as heartbreaking.
(b) That Tom takes care of his mother and sister as long as he lives.
(c) That Tom takes care of the mill for as long as he lives.
(d) That Tom exacts some revenge on Wakem, if he has the chance.

11. What does Tom think of Maggie?
(a) He admires her because of her intelligence.
(b) He competes with her for attention in the family.
(c) He thinks that she should be more ladylike.
(d) He thinks she is silly, but is fond of her.

12. What does Mr. Riley recommend that Mr. Tulliver do about Tom's education?
(a) Send him to boarding school.
(b) Send him to the village school.
(c) Send him to study with a lawyer.
(d) Send him to study with a parson.

13. Why does Mr. Tulliver advise Maggie and Tom not to become too close to Philip?
(a) Because he is a hunchback.
(b) Because he does not inherit any property.
(c) Because he is older than they are.
(d) Because he is Mr. Wakem's son.

14. How does Maggie react when Tom takes Lucy to the pond and tells Maggie not to come?
(a) She jumps into the pond.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She begins to fight with Tom.
(d) She pushes Lucy into the mud.

15. 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 she cannot teach him because she does not know how to do anything.
(c) He says that he is happy for her to teach him.
(d) He says that she always tries to set herself up above everyone else.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?

3. How does Mr. Tulliver's accident cause Maggie to grow up?

4. Why does Maggie run away to live with the gypsies?

5. How does the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?

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