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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Lucy trick Stephen?
(a) She suggests that Maggie is much older than she really is.
(b) She makes him think that Maggie takes after Mrs. Tulliver.
(c) She implies that Maggie is blond and blue-eyed.
(d) She tells him that Maggie has not arrived yet.

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. What kind of job does Maggie find to support herself?
(a) She becomes a cook in a local eatery.
(b) She becomes a governess for Dr. Kenn's children.
(c) She becomes a seamstress for the town.
(d) She becomes a housemaid in an inn.

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

11. 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 attacks him.
(d) He asks him to come and have dinner with the family.

12. How does Tom react, at first, to Maggie's request that she is allowed to see Philip?
(a) He says that he never allows her to see Philip as long as he lives.
(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 has no confidence in anything she says.

13. Why does Maggie pore over the pages of a book while she is waiting for Lucy to return?
(a) It gives her something to do and she is feeling bored.
(b) She wants to give the impression of only being interested in books.
(c) She is fascinated by the book and cannot put it down.
(d) It is a way to hide her face while she is crying.

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

15. 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 too much coffee to drink.
(c) She cannot stop thinking about him.
(d) She has some sewing she hopes to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Uncle Deane tell Tom that he does well not to tell people how old he is?

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

3. How does Philip Wakem react to the news about Maggie and Stephen?

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

5. How does Tom force Maggie to stop seeing Philip?

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