Comprehension Passage: "What I want Tom," said Mr.Tulliver, "What I want is to give Tom a good education, an education that will help him to earn a living. That school where he is now would have been good enough if I meant to make a miller or a farmer of him; but I should like Tom to be a bit of a scholar.I want him to able to talk and write well; it would be a help to me when I bring cases in the law-courts. I don't want to make an actual lawyer of the lad; I should be sorry for him to be a rascal. I'd like him to be a businessman ar land-valuer like Riley. Riley looks lawyers Wakem in the face as hard as once cat looks at another; he's not frightened of wakem." "well, you know best," said Mrs. Tulliver. "I've no objection. But hadn't I better kill a couple of nice fat birds and have the aunts and uncles to dinner? Then you may hear what my sisters,Mrs. Glegg and Mrs. Pullet, have got to say about it." "You may kill every hen in the yard, if you like, Bessy; but I shall not ask the advice of any aunt or uncle as to what I'm to do with my own son," said Mr.Tulliver.
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1. Why is Mr. Tullive not satisfied with the school where Tom is presently studying?
2. What does Mr.Tulliver think of lawyers?
3. Pcik out the line/phrase which shows that Riley was not afraid of Wakem. 4. Why does Mrs. Tulliver want to invite Tom's aunts and uncles to dinner?
5. Who is Bessy?
6. Why does Mr. Tulliver not welcome his wife's plan to invite Tom's aunts and uncles?
7. Pick out the word which means 'a dishonest person'.
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