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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. Why is Maggie nervous about seeing Tom when he comes home?
(a) She thinks he forgets about her since he is away.
(b) She wants to convince him to take her fishing with him.
(c) She fears that Tom is upset about being sent away to study.
(d) She forgets to feed his rabbits and they die.

2. What member of Maggie's family indulges her the most?
(a) Her mother, Mrs. Tulliver.
(b) Her brother, Tom.
(c) Her aunt, Mrs. Glegg.
(d) Her father, Mr. Tulliver.

3. What is Maggie shocked to notice after the sale?
(a) Her father is moved.
(b) Even the books are gone.
(c) Bob arrives to offer what little he can.
(d) Her mother's linens are gone.

4. Why is it particularly bad timing for Mr. Tulliver to lose the lawsuit?
(a) He is just about to expand the mill.
(b) He is hoping to take out a second mortgage on his property.
(c) He has listed his household furniture as security to pay a debt.
(d) He hopes to be able to afford to keep Tom in school.

5. How does Maggie react when Tom takes Lucy to the pond and tells Maggie not to come?
(a) She pushes Lucy into the mud.
(b) She jumps into the pond.
(c) She begins to fight with Tom.
(d) She runs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom hurt his foot?

2. How do Tom and Philip react when they first meet each other?

3. What happens to Maggie when she tries to hug Tom because she is so delighted by the music coming from the music box?

4. How does the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does staying up late and talking to Lucy, during her first evening at Lucy's house, help Maggie to feel better?

2. Why are Stephen and Maggie so sure that they should not marry?

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. Why do you think that Tom says he does not trust Maggie when it comes to Philip Wakem? Why does Maggie say that his lack of trust is unfair?

5. Mr. Wakem at first reacts with violent opposition to Philip's proposal to marry Maggie, and then he changes his mind. Why do you think that he changes his mind?

6. 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?

7. Why is it hard for Maggie to visit places in the neighborhood that she enjoys as a child, after the family goes bankrupt?

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

9. Describe Maggie's character, based on her behavior during her childhood.

10. Describe Maggie's childhood relationship with Tom.

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