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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 does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?
(a) To convince him to give Tom a job.
(b) To ask him to help the family.
(c) To support him as he takes on the running of the mill.
(d) To persuade him not to buy the mill.

2. How does Mr. Tulliver react to Mrs. Pullet's plan to mediate on his behalf with Mrs. Glegg?
(a) He already has the money and pays Mrs. lregg back right away.
(b) He decides to borrow the money to pay Mrs. Glegg back.
(c) He tells Mrs. Pullet how grateful he is to have her help.
(d) He decides to go to Mrs. Glegg himself and ask her to wait a while longer for the money.

3. What words does the narrator use to describe what she calls "the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers"?
(a) Self-righteous indignation.
(b) Foolish nonsense.
(c) Tempestuous flow of emotions.
(d) Oppressive narrowness.

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

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) She has not written about Tom previously in the book.
(b) It relates to a different setting and a different topic than Book I.
(c) Book I is getting long, so it is time to switch books.
(d) Tom has a birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maggie react to the aunt's criticism of her hair?

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

3. Who is in their home in St. Ogg's when Tom and Maggie arrive from Lorton?

4. Why does Mr. Tulliver advise Maggie and Tom not to become too close to Philip?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Maggie's and Tom's tombstone reads "In death they are not divided." What do you think that is supposed to mean?

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

5. Why do Philip and Maggie grow apart?

6. Why does Lucy at first think that Stephen and Maggie do not like each other?

7. Why is Maggie having such a bad day on the day after the aunts and uncles come to dinner?

8. How does Philip put Tom's mind at ease after the accident?

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

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

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