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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Philip and Tom's relationship become strained?
2. What kind of education does Tom need, if he wants Mr. Deane to help him?
3. How does Tom feel about the argument with Philip?
4. How do we know that Maggie tends to be rambunctious?
5. How does Tom spend his afternoon on the day that he gets home?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Maggie refuse the book that Philip tries to offer her when she runs into him, after the family goes bankrupt?
2. "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?
3. Why is Mrs. Tulliver so upset when Tom and Maggie arrive at home?
4. Maggie's and Tom's tombstone reads "In death they are not divided." What do you think that is supposed to mean?
5. How does Maggie feel when Philip declares his love for her?
6. Why is it hard for Maggie to visit places in the neighborhood that she enjoys as a child, after the family goes bankrupt?
7. Do you think that Tom enjoys taking care of the Stellings' daughter, Laura? Why or why not?
8. How does Maggie feel about Philip when she finally sees him again at her cousin Lucy's house?
9. Why do you think that Maggie's mother and aunts pull together to help her upon her return from her boat trip with Stephen?
10. Is Bob trying to court Maggie when he brings her the gift of books?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To whom do a young person living in the village of St. Ogg's turn, if he or she needs guidance? How does a young person who loses his or her parents, or whose parents are not very sensible, find guidance about life? Explain your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Who do you think is more forgiving, Maggie or Tom? Support your answer with details from The Mill on the Floss.
Essay Topic 3
The reader first glimpses the narrator in Chapter One, when the narrator uses the word "I" and talks about having dozed off dreaming about the mill and about the afternoon when the Tullivers have their discussion (the discussion that is then related in Chapter Two). Who do you think the narrator is? Why does the narrator choose to tell this story?
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