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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What action makes Maggie and Stephen particularly conscious of their attraction to each other?
(a) They happen to look each other in the eyes.
(b) They walk around the garden one evening while Lucy is out.
(c) They have a long talk about books and art.
(d) They discover that they agree about politics.

4. 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 falling in love with Stephen.
(c) She is planning to go away to a teaching job.
(d) She loses her brother as a result.

5. What does Philip offer to do for Maggie if she sees him regularly while she is caring for her parents?
(a) Meet in secret and bring her books.
(b) Convince his father to sell the mill.
(c) Help her to find a job.
(d) Help to finance Tom's trading venture.

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

7. When they finally meet again, what tool does Philip use to try to remind Maggie of their love for each other?
(a) Books.
(b) Music.
(c) Food.
(d) Drawings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Why does Stephen start having dinner at Lucy's house?
(a) To see Maggie for a little longer.
(b) To have a good meal before riding home.
(c) To talk with the Deanes.
(d) To see Lucy for a little longer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the aunts and uncles think of Tom, now that he grows up?

2. How does Lucy trick Stephen?

3. Why does Maggie criticize the book, Corinne, which Philip brings to her?

4. Why does Lucy say that she rather not be engaged?

5. What is Mr. Wakem's reaction to Philip's proposal after he has a chance to think about it?

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