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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How does the narrator think pubic opinion regards Maggie if she returns to St. Ogg's as Mrs. Stephen Guest?
(a) Her family welcomes her back.
(b) Gossips talk about her for weeks.
(c) People scorn her.
(d) The community sympathizes with her.

4. Who frequently visits Tom's and Maggie's grave?
(a) Stephen and Philip.
(b) Bob and his wife.
(c) Dr. Kenn and his children.
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Glegg.

5. Where has Tom wanted Maggie to live as long as she remains unmarried?
(a) At home with their mother.
(b) With their cousin Lucy.
(c) With their aunt Pullet.
(d) With friends at St. Ogg's.

6. How does Mr. Tulliver look when he goes to meet his creditors and pay them?
(a) Like his old self, strong and full of life.
(b) Lacking in confidence, unsure of himself.
(c) Emotionally overwrought, tearful, and hesitant.
(d) Sick, weakly, and feeble.

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

8. Why does Lucy have a confidential conversation with her father the same evening that Philip first comes to visit?
(a) She wants to buy the mill herself and have her family run it.
(b) She wants to ask him if there is any chance of buying the mill.
(c) She wants to warn him that Maggie and Philip may still love each other.
(d) She wants to distract Maggie from Stephen.

9. Why does Maggie resolve never to see Philip again?
(a) She supposes that he must have many other things to do with his time.
(b) She does not like him very well.
(c) She thinks that he has something to do with her family's bankruptcy.
(d) Her family does not approve.

10. How does Tom force Maggie to stop seeing Philip?
(a) He threatens Philip with bodily harm if he sees Maggie again.
(b) He threatens to take away Maggie's books.
(c) He threatens to tell their father if she does not.
(d) He sends Maggie away to another town.

11. What idea occurs to Stephen once he is alone in the boat with Maggie?
(a) He wants to send a message to Lucy.
(b) He wants to land to avoid a storm.
(c) He wants to travel far away and get married.
(d) He wants to take a long boat trip and then return.

12. How does Tom figure out that Maggie is secretly meeting Philip?
(a) He finds a book that Philip loans to Maggie.
(b) He sees Maggie and Philip together.
(c) He sees her face when Aunt Pullet mentions seeing Philip leaving the Red Deep.
(d) He finds a letter that Maggie writes to Philip.

13. How does Maggie's Aunt Glegg react to the news that Maggie comes home?
(a) She presumes that Maggie wants to stay with her.
(b) She suggests that Maggie find a situation elsewhere.
(c) She scolds Tom for criticizing Maggie.
(d) She agrees that Maggie should not be allowed in the house.

14. How does Maggie try to stem her loneliness while she is living at home and nursing her father back to health?
(a) She finds Tom's old schoolbooks and begins to study them.
(b) She talks with Bob whenever he comes to visit.
(c) She visits all her old childhood haunts in the neighborhood.
(d) She sits with her mother and tries to cheer her up.

15. Why does Mr. Wakem talk to Maggie at the bazaar?
(a) Because he wants her advice about the mill.
(b) Because he forgives her family.
(c) Because he wants to buy some knit goods from her.
(d) Because Philip wants to marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom react when he is offered a share in the business at Guest and Company?

2. What is Maggie's plan for supporting herself when she returns to St. Ogg's?

3. What does Tom want to do to make more money?

4. What is Maggie most afraid that her father does, while he is recovering from his accident?

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

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