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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 Eppie help bring Silas Marner back into the church?
(a) Dolly Winthrop convinces him to bring her to church for her own good.
(b) Eppie fancies the large church building.
(c) Silas Marner decides he must show her the faults of the church.
(d) Eppie asks Silas Marner to bring her to church.

2. What does Godfrey hope to gain by marrying Nancy Lammeter?
(a) A large dowry.
(b) A large family.
(c) A lifelong friendship.
(d) A dose of warmth and pleasantness into the cold nature of his life.

3. What does Silas Marner do to calm himself after the first shock of losing his money?
(a) Goes to sleep.
(b) Begins planning how to take vengeance on the thief.
(c) Goes to the authorities.
(d) Begins working on his loom.

4. What light does Eppie see when she looks from the bosom of her passed out mother into the falling snow?
(a) Faeries dancing in the forest.
(b) The light of Silas Marner’s cottage.
(c) The twinkling lights of the Red House.
(d) The last light of the sunset.

5. Why is Godfrey waiting to speak with Dunsey when they enter the story in Chapter 3?
(a) He wants to fight with Dunsey.
(b) He wants Dunsey to pay him back the money he borrowed.
(c) They are starting a business venture.
(d) He wants to ride horses together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eppie want to marry?

2. What is the one item that stands out as peculiar on Molly Farren’s body?

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

4. What does Godfrey Cass see by the doors that astonishes him?

5. When Silas tells the story of his finding Eppie to his neighbors, what part does he leave out?

(see the answer key)

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