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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nancy want her sister Priscilla to wear the same style dress as her?
(a) Because it makes them look like sisters.
(b) Because it makes her look better than her older sister.
(c) Because they were on sale.
(d) Because she couldn’t fit any others in her luggage.

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

3. How does Silas restrain two-year-old Eppie from wandering far while he works?
(a) By keeping her gated in a corner of the room.
(b) By keeping her locked in her room.
(c) By tying her to the leg of his loom.
(d) By keeping her in the coal-hole.

4. What kind of party does the Cass family throw on Christmas Day?
(a) A family party.
(b) A huge party with the whole town invited.
(c) A ball for all of the local nobleman.
(d) They did not throw a party.

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

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

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 wrote Silas Marner off as a broken man.
(c) They came down harder than ever with their criticisms.
(d) He began to be viewed as a community leader.

8. What holiday came shortly after Dolly Winthrop’s visit?
(a) Easter.
(b) New Years.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Thanksgiving.

9. Who is Molly Farren?
(a) Squire Cass’s deceased wife.
(b) Godfrey Cass’s drunken wife.
(c) Godfrey Cass’s violent sister.
(d) Dunsey’s bitter wife.

10. When Squire Cass begins pushing Godfrey to propose to Nancy Lammeter, what is Godfrey’s response?
(a) He gets hot and uncomfortable.
(b) He storms out of the room in a rage.
(c) He gets cold and clammy.
(d) He leaves in a huff.

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

12. What form of discipline does Silas Marner try to use on Eppie when she wanders off without his knowing?
(a) He puts her in the coal-hole.
(b) He does not speak to her.
(c) He spanks her.
(d) He sends her to her room.

13. Which party is the biggest event of the year for the Red House?
(a) They had no big events.
(b) The New Year’s Eve dance.
(c) The family Christmas party.
(d) The Easter gala.

14. What does Eppie ask Silas Marner if they could build outside of their house?
(a) A gazebo.
(b) A garden.
(c) A shed.
(d) A path to the Stone-pits.

15. Why does Godfrey owe 100 pounds to his father?
(a) He needed the money to pay off a gambling debt.
(b) He wanted to enlist.
(c) He had collected it from his father’s tenant, Fowler, and then let Dunsey borrow it and then lose it.
(d) He needed to buy a new horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eppie begin to reform Silas Marner’s attitude towards life?

2. Who watches Eppie’s life keenly from afar, helping form a distance whenever he can?

3. How does Godfrey feel when his daughter doesn’t recognize him?

4. What is Godfrey’s main thought as he travels to see Molly Farren’s body?

5. What part of his confession does Godfrey fail to communicate to his father?

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