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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What curious habit has Silas Marner reluctantly taken up because it is “good for the fits” (171)?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Smoking a pipe.
(c) Eating more red meat.
(d) Going for a job every day.

2. Why do Godfrey and Nancy step out during the dance?
(a) They were “sweethearting”.
(b) They wanted some time to play cards.
(c) Nancy’s dress had suffered a slight accident.
(d) They needed to have a serious conversation.

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

4. What is the name of the Cass estate?
(a) The Red House.
(b) Stoning Yard.
(c) The Rainbow.
(d) Raveloe Manor.

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

6. What does Squire Cass decide regarding Dunsey’s position in his household after he staked Wildfire?
(a) That his son must be confined to his quarters.
(b) That his son is no longer welcome.
(c) That his son should run his estate.
(d) That his son should enlist.

7. How does Eppie begin to reform Silas Marner’s attitude towards life?
(a) She brings him back into social life.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) She helps him rejoin the church.
(d) She makes his time away from his loom feel like a holiday.

8. What issue does Dolly Winthrop confront Silas Marner regarding?
(a) His ability to care for himself.
(b) His attitude towards attending church.
(c) His failure to protect his gold.
(d) His past life in Lantern Yard.

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

10. What does Godfrey Cass see by the doors that astonishes him?
(a) Nancy Lammeter’s beauty.
(b) Silas Marner holding his daughter.
(c) All the gold in Scotland.
(d) A feast worthy of a king.

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

12. Who is Solomon in Chapter 11?
(a) Nancy Lammeter’s brother.
(b) The fiddler at the New Year’s Eve party.
(c) An important guest of Squire Cass.
(d) The head butler at the Red House.

13. 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 earning it through trade and merchant enterprises.
(b) By selling his mother’s diamond pin.
(c) By stealing it from Silas Marner.
(d) By selling his father’s horse, Snow Mane.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Squire Cass begins pushing Godfrey to propose to Nancy Lammeter, what is Godfrey’s response?

3. What positive effect does the loss of his treasure have on Silas Marner’s relationship with his neighbors?

4. Why does Nancy want her sister Priscilla to wear the same style dress as her?

5. When Mrs. Kimble asks Silas Marner to surrender the child to the women’s care, what is his response?

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