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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Maggie happy to run into Philip?

2. How does Maggie try to stem her loneliness while she is living at home and nursing her father back to health?

3. Why do the aunts and uncles think that Maggie should not go back into service?

4. How does Tom come up with capital to finance his venture with Bob?

5. How does Mr. Tulliver look when he goes to meet his creditors and pay them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think that Maggie is better off ending up with Philip, with Stephen, or with neither? Defend your perspective. Be sure to include evidence from The Mill on the Floss to support your case.

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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