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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do Tom and Philip become closer again for a little while while Tom is recovering from his injury?
(a) Tom apologizes to Philip for the things he says before.
(b) Philip is kind to Tom while he recovers from his injury.
(c) They both love Maggie.
(d) They both realize how silly their quarrel is.

3. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?
(a) Yap.
(b) Mrs. Tulliver.
(c) Tom.
(d) Maggie.

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?
(a) There are recent improvements to the local school.
(b) The clergyman recently stops taking students.
(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.

10. Which of the following character traits does the narrator feel is typical of the people of St. Ogg's?
(a) Superstitiousness.
(b) Courage.
(c) Grace.
(d) Callousness.

11. What does Maggie think of Tom's lessons with Mr. Stelling when she visits?
(a) She is horrified by how hard Tom has to work in order to learn anything.
(b) She thinks that Tom's education is useless when he returns to St. Ogg's.
(c) She is delighted with the schoolwork and learns a lot herself while visiting.
(d) She hopes that Mr. Tulliver is happy with his investment in Tom's education.

12. 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?
(a) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.
(b) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(c) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(d) Tom has a birthday.

13. When Mr. Tulliver wakes up, what does he tell Tom to do about the family's bankruptcy?
(a) Go back to school at all costs.
(b) Get a job working as a schoolmaster.
(c) Destroy Moss's note and pay Luke what is owed to him.
(d) Try to find a way to save the mill.

14. Why does Mrs. Glegg get angry with Mr. Glegg the morning after they come home from visiting the Tullivers?
(a) She feels that he is not careful enough about money.
(b) She feels that he does not do enough chores around the house.
(c) She feels that he does not allow her to visit her sister often enough.
(d) She feels he does not support her in the argument with Mr. Tulliver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Tulliver advise Maggie and Tom not to become too close to Philip?

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

3. How does Tom spend his afternoon on the day that he gets home?

4. What is Maggie shocked to notice after the sale?

5. Why does Maggie get angry with her aunts and uncles?

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