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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Maggie continue to see Philip when she does not believe she is ever able to marry him?
(a) She hopes that someday something changes.
(b) She can't stop herself because she treasures their time together.
(c) She thinks that in time, people forget about the bankruptcy.
(d) She thinks that if she sees him often enough, she stops wanting to be with him.

2. Why does Stephen Guest steal Lucy's sewing scissors?
(a) To cut a thread.
(b) To put them away for her and save her the trouble.
(c) To cut an article out of the newspaper.
(d) To have a chance to touch her when he gives them back.

3. How do Maggie and Stephen react to their growing interest in each other?
(a) They spend as much time together as they can.
(b) They begin to write each other letters.
(c) They start meeting secretly.
(d) They try to ignore each other and focus on Maggie.

4. What is Mr. Wakem's reaction to Philip's proposal after he has a chance to think about it?
(a) He agrees to meet with Tom and try to set aside their differences.
(b) He refuses to let Philip consider marrying Maggie.
(c) He agrees that Philip asks Maggie to marry him.
(d) He insists that Philip never associates with any of the Tullivers.

5. What moment in the book does the narrator say is the most delicious of Tom's life?
(a) The moment when Mr. Tulliver first comes out of his coma.
(b) The moment when Bob first suggests the trading scheme to Tom.
(c) The moment when he tells Maggie that he knows about her meetings with Philip.
(d) The moment when he tells his father he pays the family debts.

6. Why does the job working for Dr. Kenn become a problem?
(a) Town gossips begin to talk about Maggie having a relationship wtih Dr. Kenn.
(b) Some gossips claim that Maggie is very lazy and does not take care of the children.
(c) People tend to think that Maggie is unreliable.
(d) People don't think that Maggie is fit to be around children.

7. When Philip asks Maggie if she still has feelings for him, what does she give as her reason why she cannot marry him?
(a) She is planning to go away to a teaching job.
(b) She loses her brother as a result.
(c) She is falling in love with Stephen.
(d) She upsets the memory of her dead father.

8. What is the real reason why Maggie is not tired the night after meeting Stephen?
(a) She has a book she wants to read.
(b) She has some sewing she hopes to do.
(c) She has too much coffee to drink.
(d) She cannot stop thinking about him.

9. Why is Maggie happy to run into Philip?
(a) She thinks that he may want to talk to her.
(b) She wants to tell him just what she thinks of what her father does to her family.
(c) She hopes that he brings her some books to read or at least tell her some stories.
(d) She wants to let him know that she does not blame him for what happens.

10. What does Philip argue with his father, Mr. Wakem, about?
(a) He argues that the dispute with the Tullivers should be set aside.
(b) He tells his father that he wants to get a job.
(c) He tries to convince his father to sell the mill.
(d) He tells his father that he is in love with Maggie.

11. What does Maggie find the most difficult about living at home, in poverty?
(a) Tom does not spend enough time with her now.
(b) She misses books and reading.
(c) She likes to go out with other young women.
(d) Her father seems to have no spark of life anymore.

12. Why does Maggie criticize the book, Corinne, which Philip brings to her?
(a) The heroine is blond.
(b) The book is dull.
(c) The story is too long.
(d) There is no moral.

13. What do Tom and Maggie both fear when Tom announces to his father that he is able to pay the debts?
(a) That Mr. Tulliver refuses to let Tom do it.
(b) That something happens to stop Tom from doing it.
(c) That the shock gives Mr. Tulliver a relapse.
(d) That Tom is tempted to tell his father about Maggie and Philip.

14. How does Tom react, at first, to Maggie's request that she is allowed to see Philip?
(a) He says that he has no confidence in anything she says.
(b) He agrees that she is trusted now.
(c) He says that she can see Philip if there is a chaperone.
(d) He says that he never allows her to see Philip as long as he lives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Philip shake Maggie's resolve never to see him again?

2. How does Maggie's Aunt Glegg react to the news that Maggie comes home?

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

4. Why does Mr. Wakem talk to Maggie at the bazaar?

5. Why does Stephen come to see Maggie at the Mosses?

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