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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Godfrey follows Doctor Kimble and Silas Marner, what item of clothing does he forget he is wearing out into the snow?
(a) His slippers.
(b) His dress clothes.
(c) His thin shoes.
(d) His best hat.

5. How does the matter of Silas’ gold being stolen affect the townspeople?
(a) They were afraid to talk, as it might upset the spirits that stole the gold.
(b) It gave them something to talk about.
(c) They did not talk about it.
(d) They were sorrowful for the weaver.

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

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

8. Most of Silas Marner’s neighbors have what kind of tone with him when they visit him after his loss?
(a) They are cheery and positive.
(b) They are angry and attacking.
(c) They are condescending and not comforting.
(d) They are sad and sorrowful.

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

10. What topic from Silas Marner’s past do he and Dolly discuss at length?
(a) About the drawing of lots to decide his guilt.
(b) About the chapel in Lantern Yard.
(c) About his fiancé Sarah.
(d) About William Dane’s betrayal.

11. 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) If she is dead, he will be free to marry Nancy.
(d) I’m sorry to miss such a wonderful party.

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

13. How much time passes between the end of Part 1 and the beginning of Part 2?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 16years.
(c) 16 months.
(d) 15 years.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event at parties made Uncle Kimble, the doctor, intense and bitter?

2. How does Eppie help bring Silas Marner back into the church?

3. Does Silas Marner's form of discipline for Eppie work?

4. Who is with Molly Farren as she travels to the Red House?

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

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