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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is Squire Cass when he is described in Chapter 9?
(a) 60 years old.
(b) 80 years old.
(c) 75 years old.
(d) 50 years old.

3. 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.

4. Why does Dolly Winthrop have time to visit Silas Marner regularly?
(a) Because she was in love with Silas Marner and made the time.
(b) Because she rose at 4:30 every morning and got her chores done early and had time to spare.
(c) Because she was unemployed.
(d) Because she was lazy.

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

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

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

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

9. 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 tying her to the leg of his loom.
(c) By keeping her locked in her room.
(d) By keeping her in the coal-hole.

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

11. Who does Eppie want to marry?
(a) Nancy Lammeter’s son, Charles.
(b) Dolly Winthrop’s son, Aaron.
(c) Dolly Winthrop’s son, Joseph.
(d) Nancy Lammeter’s son, Sebastian.

12. Who is the one neighbor who seems to have a genuine, though small, positive impact on Silas Marner?
(a) Dolly Winthrop.
(b) Mr. Snell.
(c) Nancy Lammeter.
(d) Mr. Macey.

13. How does Godfrey’s confession conversation with his father go over all?
(a) He manages to get through part but not all of his confession.
(b) He lies to get what he wants.
(c) He chickens out and does not say anything.
(d) He bears his heart and tells all.

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

15. Doctor Kimble, Silas Marner, Dolly Winthrop, and who else go back to investigate Molly Farren’s condition?
(a) Nancy Lammeter.
(b) Godfrey Cass.
(c) Squire Cass.
(d) Mr. Crackenthorp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one story genuinely considered by the town to explain the robbery of the gold?

2. What song does Dolly Winthrop have Aaron sing for Silas Marner?

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

4. What light does Eppie see when she looks from the bosom of her passed out mother into the falling snow?

5. What is Squire Cass’s initial reaction to the story of Wildfire and Godfrey’s inability to pay him the 100 pounds?

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