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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 does Mr. Tulliver feel is his strongest reason for staying and working at the mill?
(a) He lives there all his life and loves it.
(b) He has no other job.
(c) His wife asks him to.
(d) He hopes to pay off his debts.

2. Why does Mrs. Pullet want to intervene in the quarrel between Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver?
(a) Mrs. Tulliver asks her to intervene.
(b) She hopes to borrow money from Mrs. Glegg herself.
(c) She does not want people in town to hear that her family is quarreling over money.
(d) She does not like to have family members arguing with each other.

3. What does Mr. Tulliver force Tom to write on his own behalf in the Bible?
(a) That Tom exacts some revenge on Wakem, if he has the chance.
(b) That Tom takes care of the mill for as long as he lives.
(c) That Tom finds some other business to go into that is not as heartbreaking.
(d) That Tom takes care of his mother and sister as long as he lives.

4. Why does Mr. Tulliver change his mind about asking the Mosses to pay their debt?
(a) He wants Tom to be generous with Maggie if she ever needs it.
(b) He realizes that he doesn't really need the money that badly.
(c) He thinks about how he feels in Mr. Moss's position.
(d) He remembers that the Mosses have a lot of expenses to pay.

5. Why do you think that George Eliot chooses to begin a new book, Book II, with the chapter in which Tom first goes away to school?
(a) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(b) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(c) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.
(d) Tom has a birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Mr. Tulliver is talking to Mr. Riley about Tom, what does he confide in Mr. Riley about Maggie?

2. Who is the one person Mr. Tulliver recognizes after his fall from the horse?

3. What does the narrator think of Mrs. Pullet's grief over old Mrs. Sutton's death?

4. Why does Mr. Wakem ask Mr. Tulliver to run the mill?

5. Why does Mrs. Glegg get angry with Mr. Glegg the morning after they come home from visiting the Tullivers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Maggie's childhood relationship with Tom.

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

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

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

5. Why are the townspeople at St. Ogg's not surprised when the river starts to flood?

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

7. Explain why Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver quarrel during the Dodson sisters' first visit to the Tullivers.

8. Is Bob trying to court Maggie when he brings her the gift of books?

9. The title of Book Five, last chapter, Chapter Seven, "A Day of Reckoning," has a double meaning. What is it?

10. What objection does Tom's Uncle Deane raise to buying the mill, after Tom first asks him to do it? Why does Tom think that it might be possible to buy the mill?

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