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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Philip and Maggie think that they cannot be together?
(a) The townspeople gossip about them.
(b) It upsets their families.
(c) They cannot afford to set up a household.
(d) They do not really love each other that much.

2. Why does Philip begin to play the piano badly?
(a) He fears that Maggie and Stephen have feelings for each other.
(b) He plans to ask Maggie to run away with him.
(c) He is feeling very tired after his long trip.
(d) He is thinking about the last time he sees Maggie.

3. How does Tom react when Maggie comes home?
(a) He refuses to allow her to come under his roof.
(b) He argues with her but eventually lets her in.
(c) He forgives her right away and welcomes her home.
(d) He calls the police and has her arrested.

4. What happens to Bob's house?
(a) It is damaged by wind during a storm.
(b) It is buried by a mudslide.
(c) It burns to the ground.
(d) It is destroyed in a flood.

5. How does their father's death affect Maggie and Tom's relationship?
(a) They blame each other.
(b) They decide to tolerate each other.
(c) Their attitudes toward each other are unchanged.
(d) They forgive each other.

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

7. What does Tom want to do to make more money?
(a) Go back to school to get a better education.
(b) Get a second job.
(c) Speculate by investing in businesses.
(d) Trade, by sending cargo out to foreign ports.

8. Why does Maggie ask Tom to release her from her promise not to see Philip?
(a) Lucy wants to invite Philip to her house.
(b) Maggie hopes that since their father is dead, things change.
(c) Maggie cannot bear to be away from Philip.
(d) Lucy thinks that Philip is a good friend for Maggie.

9. How does Tom come up with capital to finance his venture with Bob?
(a) He gets the money from his Uncle Deane.
(b) He asks his father if he can use the money they are slowly saving.
(c) He saves the money from his work at his job.
(d) He gets the money from his Aunt Glegg.

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

11. Why does Stephen contact Maggie after she returns home from their boat trip together?
(a) He stops by to apologize for letting the boat go so far.
(b) He writes to say that he is going to marry Lucy.
(c) He writes to say that he still loves her.
(d) He stops by to say that he has no regrets.

12. What does Mr. Tulliver do when he happens to run into Mr. Wakem after he pays off his other creditors?
(a) He forgives him.
(b) He tells him what happens.
(c) He asks him to come and have dinner with the family.
(d) He attacks him.

13. Why does Lucy understand and forgive Maggie?
(a) Dr. Kenn counsels her to forgive.
(b) She forgives everyone.
(c) Maggie's mother checks on her every day.
(d) She reads Stephen's letter.

14. What is Maggie most afraid that her father does, while he is recovering from his accident?
(a) Quit his job at the mill.
(b) Give up all he has left in some scheme to go back to the way things are.
(c) Become depressed and commit suicide.
(d) Go into a rage and beat her mother.

15. How do we know that Tom is a very able employee?
(a) He is offered a share of the business at Guest and Company.
(b) Tom says that he feels he is doing a good job.
(c) Tom insists on continuing to invest money in entrepreneurial schemes.
(d) He is earning a good income for his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Maggie still in love with Stephen as she travels home?

2. What does Maggie find the most difficult about living at home, in poverty?

3. Who frequently visits Tom's and Maggie's grave?

4. Since Maggie comes back unmarried, how does the narrator say that public opinion regards Maggie?

5. Why does Maggie continue to see Philip when she does not believe she is ever able to marry him?

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