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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 11 follows which two characters as they prepare for the New Year’s Eve party?
(a) Nancy and Priscilla Lammeter.
(b) Silas Marner and Mr. Snell.
(c) Godfrey and Squire Cass.
(d) Dolly and Aaron Winthrop.

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

3. Who watches Eppie’s life keenly from afar, helping form a distance whenever he can?
(a) Godfrey Cass.
(b) Dunsey Cass.
(c) Dolly Winthrop.
(d) Priscilla Lammeter.

4. What is the weather like as Molly Farren traveled to Raveloe?
(a) It was raining.
(b) It was warm and foggy.
(c) It was sunny with high winds.
(d) It was snowing heavily.

5. Who proves to be a great help to Silas Marner as he figures out how to parent Eppie?
(a) Dolly Winthrop.
(b) Nancy Lammeter.
(c) Squire Cass.
(d) Godfrey Cass.

6. What is Godfrey’s main thought as he travels to see Molly Farren’s body?
(a) Perhaps it is not my wife. It must not be her.
(b) If my wife is dead, I will never forgive myself.
(c) I’m sorry to miss such a wonderful party.
(d) If she is dead, he will be free to marry Nancy.

7. Silas Marner sees a blurred vision of a pile of something yellow on his hearth. What does he think it is?
(a) His stolen gold returned to him.
(b) A pile of straw.
(c) Yarn for his loom.
(d) Eppie’s golden hair.

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

9. What part of his confession does Godfrey fail to communicate to his father?
(a) That he is already married to the drunken Molly Farren.
(b) That he is not in love with Nancy lammeter.
(c) That he stole Silas Marner’s gold.
(d) That his horse, Wildfire, was “staked.”

10. Why is Silas Marner unaware of Eppie’s entrance into his cottage?
(a) He was gone from his house.
(b) He was scared of intruders and hiding.
(c) He was having a seizure by the open door.
(d) He was sleeping with the door unlocked.

11. 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 selling his mother’s diamond pin.
(c) By earning it through trade and merchant enterprises.
(d) By stealing it from Silas Marner.

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

13. At the end of Chapter 14 Eppie is again referred to as an angel, this time leading Silas Marner away from what?
(a) The dangers of depression.
(b) The best food in town.
(c) The loss of his money.
(d) The city of destruction.

14. 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 last light of the sunset.
(d) The twinkling lights of the Red House.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the matter of Silas’ gold being stolen affect the townspeople?

2. What topic from Silas Marner’s past do he and Dolly discuss at length?

3. Why do Godfrey and Nancy step out during the dance?

4. Who is Solomon in Chapter 11?

5. Where do the upper class women of Raveloe prepare for the great New Years Eve dance at the Red House?

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