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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mrs. Moss soften Mr. Tulliver's anger?
(a) She reminds him of their childhood together.
(b) She praises his son, Tom.
(c) She offers him a piece of pie.
(d) She praises his daughter, Maggie.

2. What does the narrator think about the system of sending boys to study with independent schoolmasters, such as Mr. Stelling?
(a) She thinks that it leaves a boy's education up to pure luck.
(b) She approves of the individual attention that boys get from these teachers.
(c) She thinks it is wrong for boys to leave their homes to go to school.
(d) She feels that girls should also go to school with independent schoolmasters.

3. What kind of education does Tom need, if he wants Mr. Deane to help him?
(a) Banking.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Management.
(d) Bookkeeping.

4. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?
(a) Oppressive narrowness.
(b) Tempestuous flow of emotions.
(c) Foolish nonsense.
(d) Self-righteous indignation.

5. Why does looking at the new bonnet make Mrs. Tulliver and Mrs. Pullet so sad?
(a) Mrs. Pullet speculates that she may not live to wear the bonnet in a second season.
(b) Mrs. Tulliver wishes that she has a similar bonnet.
(c) The bonnet is not fashionable any more.
(d) The bonnet is crushed in the closet and ruined.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Tom and Philip become closer again for a little while while Tom is recovering from his injury?

2. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?

3. How does Tom react to his father's accident?

4. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?

5. What kind of a job does Mr. Deane eventually find for Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mr. Tulliver feel that the river's water should not be diverted for purposes of irrigation?

2. Do you think that Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver get along very well? Why or why not?

3. What do you think horrifies Tom the most about Maggie meeting Philip, the fact that Philip is a hunchback, or that he is the son of Mr. Wakem? Why?

4. Why does Maggie not choose to stay with the gypsies once she finds them?

5. Why does Lucy at first think that Stephen and Maggie do not like each other?

6. What does Maggie think of Philip when she first meets him?

7. How does Philip put Tom's mind at ease after the accident?

8. Why do you think that George Eliot ends Book III with Mr. Tullivan's assertion in the Bible that he wishes Wakem evil?

9. What kind of person is Mrs. Glegg?

10. How does Tom feel about the family's bankruptcy?

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