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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tom react when Maggie comes home?
(a) He argues with her but eventually lets her in.
(b) He refuses to allow her to come under his roof.
(c) He forgives her right away and welcomes her home.
(d) He calls the police and has her arrested.

2. What happens to Dorlcote Mill in the flood?
(a) It is demolished but then is rebuilt.
(b) It rides out the flood with no problems.
(c) It floats away and becomes the mill in another town.
(d) It is demolished and never rebuilt.

3. How does Tom react when he is offered a share in the business at Guest and Company?
(a) He asks his uncle to buy the old mill instead.
(b) He immediately accepts.
(c) He declines the offer and starts his own business instead.
(d) He tells his uncle he'd rather wait a few more years first.

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

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

6. Why does Maggie have nightmares while she sleeps on the boat with Stephen?
(a) She fears that she ruins her life and that of her family members.
(b) She is concerned about all the people who must be worrying about her and Stephen.
(c) She wonders whether anyone realizes that they drift too far down the river accidentally.
(d) She is afraid the boat overturns and she drowns.

7. 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 Tom is tempted to tell his father about Maggie and Philip.
(c) That the shock gives Mr. Tulliver a relapse.
(d) That Mr. Tulliver refuses to let Tom do it.

8. 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.

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

10. 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 says that he has no confidence in anything she says.
(c) He agrees that she is trusted now.
(d) He says that she can see Philip if there is a chaperone.

11. 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 may be able to restore the Tullivers' good name.
(d) He becomes a credit to the family.

12. How does Maggie die at the end of the book?
(a) She is trying to leave St. Ogg's again in a boat, and it capsizes.
(b) She jumps into the floodwater and commits suicide.
(c) She is trying to rescue Tom from the flood and they both are swept away.
(d) She is buried when a house is knocked down in the storm and collapses on her.

13. Why does Philip begin to play the piano badly?
(a) He is feeling very tired after his long trip.
(b) He plans to ask Maggie to run away with him.
(c) He fears that Maggie and Stephen have feelings for each other.
(d) He is thinking about the last time he sees Maggie.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Tulliver plan to do once the debts are paid?

3. Why does Maggie continue to see Philip when she does not believe she is ever able to marry him?

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

5. Why is Maggie admitted to society and invited to social events that are thought to be above her station?

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