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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 is Maggie most shocked by when she arrives at home after accompanying Tom home from Lorton?
2. How does Tom hurt his foot?
3. What does the narrator say is the most accurate depiction of the religion of the Tullivers and the other people who live in the village of St. Ogg's?
4. Why is it hard on Maggie to have her aunts and uncles and cousins come to visit?
5. Why does Mrs. Tulliver go to see Mr. Wakem?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are Stephen and Maggie so sure that they should not marry?
2. Why are Maggie and Philip a good match for each other?
3. Using the descriptions provided by their parents (Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver), compare and contrast the characters of Tom and Maggie.
4. How does Mr. Tulliver react when Mrs. Tulliver tells him that Mrs. Pullet plans to intervene on his behalf with her sister, Mrs. Glegg?
5. What is Stephen Guest looking for in a wife? What qualities does he see in Lucy that appeal to him?
6. Do you think that the narrator is favorably impressed with the religion of the Dodsons and the Tullivers? Why or why not?
7. Why do you think that Maggie's mother and aunts pull together to help her upon her return from her boat trip with Stephen?
8. Why is Mrs. Tulliver so upset when Tom and Maggie arrive at home?
9. "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?
10. How does staying up late and talking to Lucy, during her first evening at Lucy's house, help Maggie to feel better?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think that Maggie choses to marry neither Philip Wakem nor Stephen Guest? Explain what Maggie is thinking and why she wants to remain single. Use examples from The Mill on the Floss to support your point of view.
Essay Topic 2
Pick a passage from The Mill on the Floss. Then write an essay in which you analyze its tone. In your analysis, try to determine what the narrator is trying to communicate subtly, with her tone, in addition to the message that she communicates overtly, using words.
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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