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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who frequently visits Tom's and Maggie's grave?

2. How do we know that Tom is a very able employee?

3. What happens between Stephen and Maggie at the Mosses?

4. Why does Maggie pore over the pages of a book while she is waiting for Lucy to return?

5. Why do Philip and Maggie think that they cannot be together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

When Maggie is a child, the adults around her worry about her future. Why do they worry so much about her? What is their main concern? Support your answer with details from the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper analyzing the plot development in The Mill on the Floss. What do you feel is the climax of the plot? How does Eliot build tension prior to that point? How does she wind the book down after the climax?

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