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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Squire Cass’s initial reaction to the story of Wildfire and Godfrey’s inability to pay him the 100 pounds?
(a) He stares in amazement.
(b) He hits Godfrey.
(c) He leaves the room.
(d) He makes Godfrey pay him back.

2. 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 did not associate with other nobility higher than his own station.
(c) Because he was afraid of being found wrong.
(d) Because he did not listen to other opinions in the first place.

3. When Mrs. Kimble asks Silas Marner to surrender the child to the women’s care, what is his response?
(a) He most certainly will surrender the child if it means he won’t have to deal with it.
(b) He doesn’t want to give her up, but he doesn’t know what to do with her.
(c) He can’t part with the child. It came to him and he has a right to keep it.
(d) He’s scared to lose what came to him, but he sees the wisdom in the request.

4. What does Dunsey’s skeleton have with it that shows who he is?
(a) Silas Marner’s gold.
(b) Squire Cass’s overcoat.
(c) Dunsey’s saddle.
(d) Godfrey’s gold-handled riding whip.

5. Who gave Silas Marner the pork he is roasting when his gold is stolen?
(a) Dolly Winthrop.
(b) Miss Nancy Lammeter.
(c) Squire Cass.
(d) Miss Priscilla Lammeter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which child did Godfrey wish to adopt?

2. William Dane frames Silas Marner for what crime in Lantern Yard?

3. What is the one thing that the honorable Nancy has failed to give Godfrey?

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

5. Why did Silas Marner need to go to the town in the rain while roasting his dinner?

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