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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bryce know that Dunsey wants to sell Wildfire?
(a) Bryce’s horse is injured and Dunsey offers to sell him his horse.
(b) Dunsey mentions a bid he had for the horse, implying his willingness to sell it.
(c) Dunsey asks him if he is interested in purchasing the horse.
(d) Bryce asks Dunsey if the horse is for sale.

2. Who are Bryce and Keating?
(a) Two men attending the hunt with Dunsey.
(b) Two merchants.
(c) A pair of actors.
(d) Dunsey’s two best friends.

3. When Godfrey follows Doctor Kimble and Silas Marner, what item of clothing does he forget he is wearing out into the snow?
(a) His best hat.
(b) His slippers.
(c) His dress clothes.
(d) His thin shoes.

4. What is both Godfrey and Squire Cass’s first guess about what happened to Wildfire?
(a) That the animal was “staked.”
(b) That the animal was not trained.
(c) That the animal was sick.
(d) That the animal broke its knees.

5. Why does Godfrey owe 100 pounds to his father?
(a) He needed the money to pay off a gambling debt.
(b) He had collected it from his father’s tenant, Fowler, and then let Dunsey borrow it and then lose it.
(c) He needed to buy a new horse.
(d) He wanted to enlist.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the holidays Godfrey is anxious about money needed to pay his wife to keep his wife silent. How can he get this money?

2. When he sees the empty hole in his floor where his gold had been, what is Silas’ reaction?

3. How much time passes between the end of Part 1 and the beginning of Part 2?

4. Why was Squire Cass’s opinion never “disturbed by comparison” (84)?

5. Does Silas Marner want to punish the thief who stole his gold?

(see the answer key)

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