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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. What does Tom suggest the aunts and uncles can do to help?
2. Why is it particularly bad timing for Mr. Tulliver to lose the lawsuit?
3. What does Tom think of Maggie?
4. Why is Maggie not punished for her behavior after running away and coming home again?
5. Why does Philip's deformity make Maggie feel more tender toward him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Lucy hope to accomplish by inviting Philip to her house?
2. Why does Tom try to convince Philip to come and see the sword demonstration?
3. 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?
4. How is Mrs. Tulliver saved from the flood?
5. What does Maggie think of Philip when she first meets him?
6. Describe Maggie's childhood relationship with Tom.
7. Why does Maggie refuse the book that Philip tries to offer her when she runs into him, after the family goes bankrupt?
8. Why do you think that Bob and his wife choose to take Maggie in when she returns from her boat trip with Stephen?
9. Why is it hard for Maggie to visit places in the neighborhood that she enjoys as a child, after the family goes bankrupt?
10. Why do you think that Maggie's mother and aunts pull together to help her upon her return from her boat trip with Stephen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Maggie's childhood relationship with Tom foreshadow the relationship she has with him as an adult? Compare Tom's tendency to alternately indulge and shame Maggie as a child with the way he treats her as an adult, when he interferes in her relationships with men. Support your answer with examples from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
What do you think is George Eliot's purpose in writing The Mill on the Floss? Support your answer with evidence from the book.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the motif of flooding in the novel. How do the early references to flooding foreshadow the flood at the end of the book? Do the references to floods refer to something other than physical floods? Is there a connection between flooding in The Mill on the Floss and the emotional transformations of the characters from the start of the book to the end? Why or why not? Support your answer with details from the book.
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