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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 Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?
(a) Help him to finish his education and Maggie to finish hers.
(b) Provide a home for the family to go to after the property is sold.
(c) Offer a job to him and to Maggie, so they can support their parents.
(d) Give money to him and Maggie right away, instead of leaving it to them in their wills.

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

3. Why does Mr. Tulliver want Tom to study drawing?
(a) So that he entertains himself at times when he is bored.
(b) So that he someday becomes an artist.
(c) So that he becomes a good draftsman of buildings and bridges.
(d) So that he is well-rounded, understanding art as well as math and language.

4. What helps Mrs. Glegg to feel better about her argument with Mr. Glegg?
(a) He tells her that they are doing fine financially.
(b) He tells her that she is being foolish.
(c) He hints that he provides well for her in his will.
(d) He suggests that family is more important than money.

5. How does Tom react to his father's accident?
(a) He tells Maggie never to speak to Philip again.
(b) He decides to challenge Wakem to a duel.
(c) He looks for a job so he can support the family.
(d) He tries to comfort his mother and sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom spend his afternoon on the day that he gets home?

2. What kind of education does Tom need, if he wants Mr. Deane to help him?

3. Why does looking at the new bonnet make Mrs. Tulliver and Mrs. Pullet so sad?

4. What does Maggie think of Tom's lessons with Mr. Stelling when she visits?

5. How does Mrs. Glegg react to Mr. Tulliver's letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Using the descriptions provided by their parents (Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver), compare and contrast the characters of Tom and Maggie.

2. Why do you think that Philip Wakem is able to forgive Maggie for the boat trip so easily, while many of the townspeople cannot?

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

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

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

6. Why are Maggie and Philip a good match for each other?

7. How is Mrs. Tulliver saved from the flood?

8. 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?

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

10. What do we learn about Tom's character from his response to the aunts and uncles after his father's accident?

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