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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maggie say to Tom after they leave Philip?
(a) Tom is no longer her brother.
(b) Tom always enjoys finding fault and punishing her.
(c) Tom never understands the difference between right and wrong.
(d) Tom never has a lover of his own.

2. Why does Lucy say that she rather not be engaged?
(a) She does not like Stephen that well.
(b) She fears that her family does not approve of Stephen.
(c) Being engaged means you get married soon.
(d) She likes to skip the engagement and just get married.

3. Why do the aunts and uncles think that Maggie should not go back into service?
(a) The aunts do not want Maggie to travel so far away.
(b) The family finances are better now.
(c) Maggie should find a husband and settle down.
(d) The family wants to send Maggie back to school.

4. The last sentence of Book Six, Chapter 10 notes that Philip is not totally happy with Maggie's answer, and says that jealousy always longs for omniscience. What does the narrator mean by this?
(a) Philip believes that Maggie chooses asceticism again.
(b) Philip suspects there is some other reason too.
(c) Philip cannot wait for Tom to feel better about the marriage.
(d) Philip is determined to take some kind of action.

5. Why does Uncle Deane tell Tom that he does well not to tell people how old he is?
(a) Tom is thought to be younger than he is, and may be able to pass himself off as a student.
(b) Tom looks older than he is and may pass for being more experienced than he is in business.
(c) Tom should not bring up the subject of age because it is not good manners.
(d) Tom should try to be judged purely on the basis of his actions, not his age or appearance.

6. Why does Mrs. Tulliver not want Maggie to do any work that is hard on her hands?
(a) She fears that Maggie hurts herself doing hard work.
(b) She thinks of Maggie as her baby because she is the youngest.
(c) She still hopes for a good marriage for Maggie and wants her hands kept soft.
(d) She worries that Maggie gets the idea of looking for work as a housemaid.

7. Where does Maggie go to live after she returns home from the boat trip with Stephen?
(a) With Bob and his family.
(b) With her aunt Pullet and her family.
(c) With her aunt Moss and her family.
(d) With her aunt Glegg and her family.

8. What is Maggie's plan for supporting herself when she returns to St. Ogg's?
(a) She plans to take a teaching job.
(b) She plans to sew for a living.
(c) She plans to work in the mill.
(d) She plans to get married to someone.

9. What do the aunts and uncles think of Tom, now that he grows up?
(a) He is an embarrassment to the family.
(b) He should leave the Tullivers and live somewhere else.
(c) He may be able to restore the Tullivers' good name.
(d) He becomes a credit to the family.

10. Which of the following statements best foreshadows Maggie's death in the flood?
(a) Maggie's boat trip with Stephen Guest.
(b) The historical floods that occurs at St. Ogg's.
(c) Mrs. Tulliver's comment, while looking for Maggie as a child, that she drows in the pond someday.
(d) Maggie's choice to dunk her head in a bucket as a child.

11. What kind of job does Maggie find to support herself?
(a) She becomes a governess for Dr. Kenn's children.
(b) She becomes a cook in a local eatery.
(c) She becomes a seamstress for the town.
(d) She becomes a housemaid in an inn.

12. Since Maggie comes back unmarried, how does the narrator say that public opinion regards Maggie?
(a) She is a kind girl who does not mean to get into trouble.
(b) She is a designing, bold girl who seduces her cousin's suitor.
(c) She is a sweet, innocent girl kidnapped against her will.
(d) She is a thoughtless girl who needs better supervision.

13. Why has Philip come to see Maggie?
(a) He brings something for her family.
(b) He wants to be friends.
(c) He wants to do something to help.
(d) He has a message from his father.

14. How does Philip shake Maggie's resolve never to see him again?
(a) He asks her whether she does not like him as she once does.
(b) He tells her that he cannot live without her.
(c) He tells her that she is missing all that life has to offer.
(d) He tells her that she is just trying to stupefy herself into resignation.

15. What do Tom and Maggie look like when their bodies are discovered?
(a) They are hugging each other tightly.
(b) They are far from each other.
(c) They are no longer recognizable.
(d) They are never found.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bob try to cheer Maggie up?

2. Why does the job working for Dr. Kenn become a problem?

3. How does their father's death affect Maggie and Tom's relationship?

4. How does Lucy's plan to intervene with Tom on Maggie's behalf backfire?

5. What clue does George Eliot give us to indicate that Stephen Guest is married at the end of the book?

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