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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event at parties made Uncle Kimble, the doctor, intense and bitter?
(a) Playing cards and drinking brandy.
(b) Eating fancy foods.
(c) Not getting enough rest.
(d) Dancing for hours on end.

2. What part of the sight of Molly Farren’s dead body stays vivid in Godfrey’s memory?
(a) Her emaciated frame.
(b) Her worn and wrinkled hands.
(c) Her worn, lined face.
(d) Her long black hair.

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

4. Does Silas Marner's form of discipline for Eppie work?
(a) No. Eppie ends up going back in on her own.
(b) Yes. It is an unmitigated success.
(c) No. Eppie is so scared she runs away again.
(d) Mostly, but it hurts Silas Marner’s heart every time he has to do it.

5. What is the one item that stands out as peculiar on Molly Farren’s body?
(a) Her phial of Opium.
(b) Her coat.
(c) Her wedding ring.
(d) Her glasses.

6. During the holidays Godfrey is anxious about money needed to pay his wife to keep his wife silent. How can he get this money?
(a) By selling his father’s horse, Snow Mane.
(b) By stealing it from Silas Marner.
(c) By earning it through trade and merchant enterprises.
(d) By selling his mother’s diamond pin.

7. What positive effect does the loss of his treasure have on Silas Marner’s relationship with his neighbors?
(a) Rather than be repulsed and avoidant, they now pitied him.
(b) They came down harder than ever with their criticisms.
(c) He began to be viewed as a community leader.
(d) They wrote Silas Marner off as a broken man.

8. Who is with Molly Farren as she travels to the Red House?
(a) Her two-year-old daughter.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her eight-year-old son.
(d) Her adult son.

9. How does Godfrey feel when his daughter doesn’t recognize him?
(a) Terrible regret for his choices.
(b) Rapturous joy at being free.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Conflicting regret and joy.

10. How long does the New Year’s Eve dance last?
(a) An evening of splendid fun.
(b) It lasted for days.
(c) One whole night.
(d) A lunch and a dinner.

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

12. Does Silas Marner attend the Christmas service to which Dolly invited him?
(a) No, but he attended chapel elsewhere.
(b) No, he stayed home.
(c) Yes, but he left part way through the service.
(d) Yes, he attended the whole service but left right afterwards.

13. What is the one story genuinely considered by the town to explain the robbery of the gold?
(a) That it must have been magical.
(b) That Silas Marner was lying.
(c) That it was connected to the discovered tinderbox and peddler.
(d) That Dunsey Cass was to blame.

14. Does anyone connect that the disappearance of both Dunsey and Silas Marner’s gold occurred on the same day?
(a) No one made the connection.
(b) Squire Cass kept the story hidden.
(c) The constable thought so but could not get a warrant.
(d) A few people were suspicious.

15. 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. Why is Dunsey Cass’s absence after he kills Wildfire not a matter of concern or discussion?

2. What kind of party does the Cass family throw on Christmas Day?

3. What does Squire Cass decide regarding Dunsey’s position in his household after he staked Wildfire?

4. What curious habit has Silas Marner reluctantly taken up because it is “good for the fits” (171)?

5. What is the weather like as Molly Farren traveled to Raveloe?

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