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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. How does Maggie de-stress when she is frustrated?
2. Why does Mr. Wakem ask Mr. Tulliver to run the mill?
3. What does Mr. Tulliver feel is his strongest reason for staying and working at the mill?
4. What is Mr. Tulliver's opinion of lawyers?
5. Why does Maggie get angry with her aunts and uncles?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why do you think that George Eliot ends Book III with Mr. Tullivan's assertion in the Bible that he wishes Wakem evil?
3. 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?
4. What kind of person is Mrs. Moss?
5. Why does Maggie refuse the book that Philip tries to offer her when she runs into him, after the family goes bankrupt?
6. How does Maggie react when she realizes that she and Steven go too far in the boat?
7. Why is Mrs. Tulliver so upset when Tom and Maggie arrive at home?
8. Why is it hard for Maggie to visit places in the neighborhood that she enjoys as a child, after the family goes bankrupt?
9. Why do you think that Dr. Kenn offers Maggie a job as a governess when she returns from her boat trip with Stephen?
10. Explain why Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver quarrel during the Dodson sisters' first visit to the Tullivers.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Research the legal issues that are raised during The Mill on the Floss. Then analyze Mr. Tulliver's legal problems. In your opinion, is Mr. Tulliver in the right? Why or why not? Use evidence from the book and from your own research to support your view.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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