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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. What do Tom and Maggie look like when their bodies are discovered?
(a) They are no longer recognizable.
(b) They are never found.
(c) They are hugging each other tightly.
(d) They are far from each other.

7. Since Maggie comes back unmarried, how does the narrator say that public opinion regards Maggie?
(a) She is a thoughtless girl who needs better supervision.
(b) She is a sweet, innocent girl kidnapped against her will.
(c) She is a designing, bold girl who seduces her cousin's suitor.
(d) She is a kind girl who does not mean to get into trouble.

8. What clue does George Eliot give us to indicate that Stephen Guest is married at the end of the book?
(a) She tells the reader outright that Stephen is married.
(b) She refers to Stephen's wife and children.
(c) She has Stephen call out to his wife while they are visiting the tomb.
(d) She says that he visits the tomb later "with a sweet face beside him".

9. How does Bob try to cheer Maggie up?
(a) He brings her food.
(b) He brings her books.
(c) He offers the family money.
(d) He does work around the house.

10. 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.

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

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

13. Why does Maggie criticize the book, Corinne, which Philip brings to her?
(a) The book is dull.
(b) The heroine is blond.
(c) There is no moral.
(d) The story is too long.

14. Why is Maggie admitted to society and invited to social events that are thought to be above her station?
(a) Lucy personally asks her friends to invite Maggie to events.
(b) Lucy and Stephen want her to be included, so others include her.
(c) Maggie's mother takes it upon herself to make sure that Maggie is included.
(d) Maggie is assertive about making sure that she is included.

15. 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 persuades Tom that Maggie should be allowed to become a schoolteacher.
(c) She convinces Tom that Maggie never goes back into service.
(d) She makes Tom feel suspicious that Maggie must be planning to marry Philip.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Stephen offend Maggie at the dance?

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

4. Why is Maggie happy to run into Philip?

5. Why does Philip begin to play the piano badly?

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