PART 1: CHILDHOOD

CHAPTER 1: Dorlcote Mill.

ACTIVITIES.
Activity 1, p. 12
1. Because st Oggs was a boatman who gained a scanty living by ferrying passengers
across the river Floss, when he died her soul appeared.
Also he is the patron of the town and there is an original chapel dedicated him.
2. Maggie Tulliver, the impetuous and generous young heroine. Regarded as wild and
gypsy-like by most of her respectable relatives, the sensitive and imaginative Maggie
does not fit into the provincial society.
3. To give him a good education he wants to put him in a good school where he can learn
to read and write and speak well.
4. He doesnt like Mrs Tulliver family, he thinks that they arent very clever.
5. She confirms her parents description by taking off her hat and revealing the messy hair
that so distressed her mother

Activity 2, p. 12
I think Tom will say to Maggie: I dont love you Maggie!

CHAPTER 2: Tom comes home.

Activity 1, p. 17
1. She is an unpractical child who tends to dream. More critically, she might be considered
slightly selfish but at the same time she insensitive and is sorry to have upset her
brother.
2. He is clearly completely different from his sister. Such rigidity can be interpreted either
as a strong moral sense or obtuseness.
3.

When we are older, we keep apart when we have quarrelled. But Maggie and Tom
were very young.

Before You Read

I think they will be like a family with money, respectable and decent.

CHAPTER 3: The aunts and uncles are coming.

Activity 1, p 22.

1. Possible: conscientious, lawabiding, hypocritical, thrifty.

2. To introduce the other members of the family in one narrative event; to highlight the
differences between the Dodsons and the Tullivers; to develop the theme of the law suit;
to show how different Maggie is.
3. The husbands are more sympathetic characters especially Mr Glegg.
4.

Maggie is impulsive and irresponsible whilst Tom is more sensible and judgmental.

Activity 2, p 22
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Mrs Glegg is criticising.

Before You Read

The title of next chapter: Maggie behaves worse than she expected
Maggie will be furious and hurt. She goes away.

CHAPTER 4: Maggie behaves worse than she expected.

Activity1 , page 26
a. False. Tom did.
b. False she was glad to spoil their happiness.
c. False. Mr Tulliver regards Wakem as an enemy.
d.

True.

Before You Read

I think Maggie wont like the gipsies lifestyle. Her own ideas about gypsies are different from
the reality.

CHAPTER 5: Maggie runs away to the gypsies.

Activity 1, page 30

The gypsies were dirty; they didnt read books; she didnt like their food; one of them

1.

had taken her silver thimble; they looked frightening.

2. They are instinctively close.
Before You Read
He will have many problems, for one hand he wont have friends and he wont understand
anything about his class.

CHAPTER 6: Toms new school.

Activity 1, page 34
Toms old school
a. Sports were important
b. Tom was good at sport
c. Tom was popular with other boys
d. Tom felt happy and self-confident
Mr Stellings school
a.

School work was important

b. Tom couldnt understand Latin and Euclid

c.

He was made fun of by Mr Stelling

d. He felt vulnerable and miserable

Tom

Maggie

High points

Low points

High points

Seeing Maggie

School work

Feeling needed by Mr Stellings

Hearing
Stellings

Mr Mr Stellings jokes
opinion

Low points

Tom

opinion of womens

Looking at

intelligence

Toms books

of women.

Activity 1, page 34
They will become friend because Maggie is identifying with Philip.