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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who watches Eppie’s life keenly from afar, helping form a distance whenever he can?
(a) Dunsey Cass.
(b) Godfrey Cass.
(c) Dolly Winthrop.
(d) Priscilla Lammeter.

2. What does Dunsey mean by “I’m always lucky in my weather” (39)?
(a) He enjoys weather more than most people.
(b) His luck comes from the weather.
(c) He gets luck from all sorts of weather.
(d) He believes that the weather will cooperate for him.

3. How long is Dunsey in Silas Marner’s cottage looking for the gold?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 2 minutes.

4. Does Silas Marner get the answers he seeks in Lantern Yard?
(a) No. It is changed beyond recognition and no one remains from his past.
(b) No. He decides not to pursue the answers and to return to Raveloe.
(c) Yes and no. He finds his old parishioners, but they still reject him as an unrepentant sinner and thief.
(d) Yes. He talks with his old minister and finds peace of mind.

5. What is Eppie’s response to Godfrey’s offer to come live with Nancy and himself at the Red House?
(a) She excuses herself as needing to take care of Silas Marner in his old age.
(b) She jumps at the opportunity to live a new kind of life.
(c) She asks if her father could come with her.
(d) She politely declines to join them, as she does not want to leave her life with Silas Marner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silas Marner decide to do with the child he has found?

2. Who was William Dane?

3. What is Silas Marner’s response to Godfrey’s invitation for Eppie to live with them?

4. Why does Godfrey owe 100 pounds to his father?

5. What does Dunsey think of as he passes Silas Marner’s cottage in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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