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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 the narrator say that Maggie looks compared to her cousin Lucy?
(a) Like a newly blossomed rose.
(b) Like a bright, sharp knife blade.
(c) Like a cold, clear shaft of ice.
(d) Like a rough, dark, overgrown puppy.

2. What does Tom think of Maggie?
(a) He thinks she is silly, but is fond of her.
(b) He competes with her for attention in the family.
(c) He thinks that she should be more ladylike.
(d) He admires her because of her intelligence.

3. What does Mr. Riley recommend that Mr. Tulliver do about Tom's education?
(a) Send him to study with a parson.
(b) Send him to boarding school.
(c) Send him to study with a lawyer.
(d) Send him to the village school.

4. Why does Mr. Wakem decide to buy the mill?
(a) He wants revenge against Mr. Tulliver.
(b) He wants to run a mill.
(c) He feels responsible for the Tulliver family.
(d) He views it as a good business investment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Mr. Tulliver to wake up?

2. Why does Mrs. Tulliver panic when she cannot find Maggie?

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

4. Why does Mr. Tulliver fall off his horse?

5. What does Mr. Tulliver force Tom to write on his own behalf in the Bible?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mr. Deane, at first, so unwilling to help Tom after Mr. Tulliver's accident?

2. Why is Bob so determined to help Tom?

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

4. How does Mrs. Moss cause Mr. Tulliver to soften and become milder in his feelings toward her family?

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

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

7. How do Mrs. Tulliver's sisters react to the actions of the Tulliver children?

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

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

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

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