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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event at parties made Uncle Kimble, the doctor, intense and bitter?
(a) Dancing for hours on end.
(b) Not getting enough rest.
(c) Eating fancy foods.
(d) Playing cards and drinking brandy.

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

3. What song does Dolly Winthrop have Aaron sing for Silas Marner?
(a) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
(b) Silent Night.
(c) God save the King.
(d) The First Noel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Silas Marner attend the Christmas service to which Dolly invited him?

2. How much time passes between the end of Part 1 and the beginning of Part 2?

3. Why does Dolly Winthrop have time to visit Silas Marner regularly?

4. Who is the one neighbor who seems to have a genuine, though small, positive impact on Silas Marner?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Squire Cass mean when he tells Godfrey to “turn over a new leaf”?

2. Does Nancy actually want to step out of the dance with Godfrey? Why or why not?

3. Why is Molly Farren on her way to the New Year’s Eve dance at the Red House? What are her motivations?

4. What does Eppie express a desire for as they leave the church? How does this reflect Eppie’s life with Silas Marner?

5. How does having Eppie affect Silas Marner’s attitude towards church?

6. How is Silas Marner viewed as Part 2 of the story begins?

7. Why is the connection between Eppie’s hair and Marner’s lost gold significant?

8. How does Silas attempt to keep track of Eppie while he works?

9. How does Silas Marner’s trial of using the coal-hole work?

10. Why is the New Year’s Eve dance more important than the Christmas Day party at the Red House?

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