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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 buy something from the gypsies.
(b) She is often been told that she is wild like a gypsy.
(c) She hopes the gypsies take her along when they leave town.
(d) She wants to visit a friend who is a gypsy.

2. 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 decides to borrow the money to pay Mrs. Glegg back.
(c) He already has the money and pays Mrs. lregg back right away.
(d) He decides to go to Mrs. Glegg himself and ask her to wait a while longer for the money.

3. 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 goes fishing with Tom.
(d) She gets into some kind of mischief.

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

5. Which part of the news about the family finances shocks Mr. Tulliver the most when he first regains his senses after the accident?
(a) The realization that he cannot pay back his debts.
(b) The realization that he is bankrupt.
(c) The realization that he cannot afford to keep Tom in school.
(d) The realization that most of his goods are sold.

6. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?
(a) He fears that Maggie's cleverness leads to trouble when she grows up and becomes a woman.
(b) He fears that Maggie never wants to leave home because she is so close to her parents.
(c) He fears that Maggie is popular with the boys when she is older.
(d) He fears that Maggie is sorry to see Tom go away to school.

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

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

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

10. 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) Sending Tom to study with the clergyman is very expensive.
(d) A local lawyer, Wakem, is also sending his son to the same clergyman.

11. What does Tom say when Maggie offers to teach him about bookkeeping?
(a) He says that he is happy for her to teach him.
(b) He says that she cannot teach him because she does not know how to do anything.
(c) He says that women are not supposed to teach men anything.
(d) He says that she always tries to set herself up above everyone else.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Tom and Philip react when they first meet each other?

2. What does Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?

3. What is Mr. Tulliver's main regret about his children?

4. What is Mr. Tulliver's opinion of lawyers?

5. What does the narrator think about the system of sending boys to study with independent schoolmasters, such as Mr. Stelling?

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