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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What curious habit has Silas Marner reluctantly taken up because it is “good for the fits” (171)?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Smoking a pipe.
(c) Going for a job every day.
(d) Eating more red meat.

2. Who is appointed deputy-constable in the investigation of Silas' stolen gold?
(a) Godfrey Cass.
(b) Silas Marner.
(c) Mr. Snell, the landlord.
(d) Mr. Dowlas.

3. Why does Dolly Winthrop have time to visit Silas Marner regularly?
(a) Because she was in love with Silas Marner and made the time.
(b) Because she was lazy.
(c) Because she was unemployed.
(d) Because she rose at 4:30 every morning and got her chores done early and had time to spare.

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

5. Why was Squire Cass’s opinion never “disturbed by comparison” (84)?
(a) Because he was so old, he was set in his ways for life.
(b) Because he was afraid of being found wrong.
(c) Because he did not listen to other opinions in the first place.
(d) Because he did not associate with other nobility higher than his own station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two people go with Silas Marner to the constable’s after his gold is stolen?

2. Most of Silas Marner’s neighbors have what kind of tone with him when they visit him after his loss?

3. Why had Silas Marner’s cottage door been unlocked when Dunsey had entered?

4. What is it like outside when Dunsey left the weaver’s cottage?

5. At the end of Chapter 14 Eppie is again referred to as an angel, this time leading Silas Marner away from what?

(see the answer key)

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