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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. What happens to Maggie when she tries to hug Tom because she is so delighted by the music coming from the music box?
(a) Her uncle offers to play another tune on the music box.
(b) Her mother praises Maggie for being so well behaved.
(c) She gets in trouble for making him spill his cowslip wine.
(d) Tom hugs her back and forgives her for upsetting his house of cards.

2. Mr. Tulliver wakes up briefly to talk to Tom when Tom arrives home from Lorton. But what happens to him after that?
(a) He realizes that he is paralyzed from the waist down.
(b) He lapses back into a coma.
(c) He is fully restored to his senses.
(d) He has a premonition that he is going to die soon.

3. Which of the following character traits does the narrator feel is typical of the people of St. Ogg's?
(a) Superstitiousness.
(b) Courage.
(c) Callousness.
(d) Grace.

4. What do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters tell Mr. Tulliver about the clergyman he plans to send Tom to study with?
(a) There are recent improvements to the local school.
(b) The clergyman recently stops taking students.
(c) A local lawyer, Wakem, is also sending his son to the same clergyman.
(d) Sending Tom to study with the clergyman is very expensive.

5. How does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?
(a) She cuts it.
(b) She braids it and puts a hat on.
(c) She brushes it.
(d) She sticks her head in a bucket of water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Philip's main drawback, from Tom's point of view?

2. When Mr. Tulliver wakes up, what does he tell Tom to do about the family's bankruptcy?

3. Which part of the news about the family finances shocks Mr. Tulliver the most when he first regains his senses after the accident?

4. What does Tom think of Maggie?

5. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Maggie refuse the book that Philip tries to offer her when she runs into him, after the family goes bankrupt?

2. What does Lucy hope to accomplish by inviting Philip to her house?

3. "Without the beauty, we are apt to call simplicity awkwardness," writes George Eliot in chapter nine. Who is she referring to? Why does she make this comment?

4. What conclusions do you draw about gender roles in the village of St. Ogg's based on Mr. Tulliver's conversation with Mr. Riley?

5. Why is Mrs. Tulliver so upset when Tom and Maggie arrive at home?

6. Do you think that Tom enjoys taking care of the Stellings' daughter, Laura? Why or why not?

7. How does Maggie feel about Tom after he pays off the family debts?

8. Why does Tom try to convince Philip to come and see the sword demonstration?

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

10. Why do you think that Dr. Kenn offers Maggie a job as a governess when she returns from her boat trip with Stephen?

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