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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is George Eliot trying to communicate with the title, "The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns"?
(a) Creditors keep coming to the door to ask for money.
(b) The Tullivers do not seem to be making any effort to repair their nest and it just gets worse.
(c) The Tullivers are like birds living in a torn nest with thorns that poke them.
(d) There are many birds and bird nests in the area around the Tullivers' house.

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

6. What happens once Maggie and Stephen reach land?
(a) They choose not to marry but to live together in the city.
(b) They get married but quickly start to argue.
(c) Stephen has second thoughts and leaves Maggie.
(d) Maggie refuses to marry him and she leaves alone.

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 upsets the memory of her dead father.
(b) She is planning to go away to a teaching job.
(c) She is falling in love with Stephen.
(d) She loses her brother as a result.

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

9. How does Lucy's plan to intervene with Tom on Maggie's behalf backfire?
(a) She argues with Tom and ends up dividing the family between those who agree with her and those who do not.
(b) She convinces Tom that Maggie never goes back into service.
(c) She persuades Tom that Maggie should be allowed to become a schoolteacher.
(d) She makes Tom feel suspicious that Maggie must be planning to marry Philip.

10. What reason does Maggie give Lucy for not being tired the night after she meets Stephen?
(a) She is still tired from traveling to Lucy's home.
(b) She is still thinking of the music they enjoy.
(c) She stays up to talk to Lucy.
(d) She is not used to going to bed so early.

11. Is Maggie still in love with Stephen as she travels home?
(a) She realizes that she never does love him.
(b) She is still deeply in love with him.
(c) She thinks now that marriage should not be for love.
(d) She is slowly letting go of her love.

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

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

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

15. How does Philip Wakem react to the news about Maggie and Stephen?
(a) He sends her a letter saying that he believes in her.
(b) He is not bothered at all by the news.
(c) He decides that she must love Stephen very much.
(d) He sends her an angry letter refusing ever to see her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens at the bazaar to make Stephen start to feel jealous?

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

4. Why does Stephen want to marry Lucy?

5. Why does Dr. Kenn hope that the good opinion of Maggie by some people is restored?

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