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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 his fiancé Sarah.
(c) About William Dane’s betrayal.
(d) About the chapel in Lantern Yard.

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

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

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

6. Who is Dolly Winthrop’s son?
(a) George.
(b) Silas.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Doc.

7. What is Molly Farren going to do when she gets to the Red House?
(a) Violently attack Godfrey for his lack of attentions to her.
(b) Spend some much needed time with her husband.
(c) Join in the New Year’s Eve dance.
(d) Reveal herself to as Godfrey’s wife to her father-in-law, Squire Cass.

8. How does Silas restrain two-year-old Eppie from wandering far while he works?
(a) By keeping her in the coal-hole.
(b) By keeping her gated in a corner of the room.
(c) By keeping her locked in her room.
(d) By tying her to the leg of his loom.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. What light does Eppie see when she looks from the bosom of her passed out mother into the falling snow?
(a) The light of Silas Marner’s cottage.
(b) Faeries dancing in the forest.
(c) The twinkling lights of the Red House.
(d) The last light of the sunset.

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

15. When Mrs. Kimble asks Silas Marner to surrender the child to the women’s care, what is his response?
(a) He’s scared to lose what came to him, but he sees the wisdom in the request.
(b) He can’t part with the child. It came to him and he has a right to keep it.
(c) He most certainly will surrender the child if it means he won’t have to deal with it.
(d) He doesn’t want to give her up, but he doesn’t know what to do with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Dolly’s visit seems to go better than others, why is Silas happy when she leaves?

2. At the end of Chapter 14 Eppie is again referred to as an angel, this time leading Silas Marner away from what?

3. Why does Godfrey owe 100 pounds to his father?

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

5. Why is Silas Marner unaware of Eppie’s entrance into his cottage?

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