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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What part of the book is introduced in the first chapter?
(a) The theme.
(b) The setting.
(c) The main characters.
(d) The plot.

4. What does the narrator say it means when a young boy appears sheepish?
(a) He is carefully listening to what you say.
(b) He is in awe of your wisdom.
(c) He thinks you are strange.
(d) He is thinking of counterarguments to your views.

5. Why is Maggie not punished for her behavior after running away and coming home again?
(a) Tom feels so guilty about the way he treats Maggie that he decides not to tease her.
(b) Her father forbids her mother and Tom to punish or reproach her.
(c) The aunts and the uncles think Maggie is too wicked even to speak to about her behavior.
(d) Her mother is so upset after thinking Maggie drowns that she cannot bear to punish her.

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

7. What kind of a job does Mr. Deane eventually find for Tom?
(a) A job working in the mill.
(b) A job working as a laborer on a farm.
(c) A warehouse job.
(d) A bookkeeping job.

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

9. Why does Mr. Tulliver feel vindicated in his choice to send Tom to study with Mr. Stelling?
(a) Tom is doing very well in his studies and impressing those around him.
(b) Mr. Wakem, the lawyer, is sending his son to study with Mr. Stelling as well.
(c) The aunts and uncles come around and feel that Tom's education is important.
(d) Mr. Stelling is planning to open a school and admit even more students.

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

11. Why does Maggie get angry with her aunts and uncles?
(a) They scold and judge, but do not help.
(b) They criticize the dishes and linens.
(c) They fight over pieces of furniture.
(d) They do not remember to bring the cousins.

12. Why do Tom and his friend Bob fight?
(a) Each thinks the other cheats at a coin flip.
(b) Bob thinks Tom does not bring him along on his "Noah's Ark".
(c) One wants to go fishing and the other does not want to.
(d) Tom feels that Bob insults Maggie.

13. How does Philip manage to get Tom excited about learning?
(a) He becomes friends with Tom, who then wants to do the same things as Philip.
(b) He tells him stories of heros from classical mythology.
(c) He explains the connection between education and business to Tom.
(d) He inspires Tom because he is so advanced in his studies.

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

15. Why is Maggie nervous about seeing Tom when he comes home?
(a) She thinks he forgets about her since he is away.
(b) She forgets to feed his rabbits and they die.
(c) She wants to convince him to take her fishing with him.
(d) She fears that Tom is upset about being sent away to study.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attribute do all the Dodson sisters have in common?

2. Why does Mrs. Tulliver panic when she cannot find Maggie?

3. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?

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

5. How do Philip and Maggie become close?

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