Q.1
What is the immediate context to this passage?
  • Godfrey has just explained the loss of his horse and the disappearance of his brother to the Squire
  • Silas has just found Eppie on his hearth
  • Silas has interrupted supper at the Red House
  • Godfrey has been called away from the party at the Lammeter house
Q.2
What immediately follows this passage?
  • Godfrey is surprised to discover that Silas wishes to keep the child
  • Godfrey admits to Nancy that he is the child's father
  • The novel skips ahead by sixteen years
  • The child is baptized
Q.3
Why does Godfrey wish to see the dead woman?
  • He hopes she might still be revived
  • He believes he might have seen her walking around the village
  • He hopes to find that she is not his wife
  • He wishes to be sure that she is his wife
Q.4
The use of the phrase "loving disfiguration" in the final line of this passage is an example of which of the following?
  • Alliteration
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Simile
  • Juxtaposition
Q.5
The narrator compares the awe one might feel in the presence of a child to that caused by contemplating a planet, a flowering vine or the arched branches of trees. What effect does this comparison have?
  • The comparison reminds the reader that a child is somehow both grand and commonplace
  • The comparison invites contemplation of the wonder of nature in which humans are an integral part
  • The comparison evokes a sense of mystery at the heart of human life and the world
  • All of the above
Q.6
Which one of the following does NOT describe the mood created in the final paragraph of this passage?
  • Wondering
  • Despairing
  • Sombre
  • Still
Q.7
Godfrey feels shame during the conversation with his uncle. How does the reader become aware of this?
  • He is agitated
  • He accompanies his uncle to the cottage
  • He asks questions
  • He blushes
Q.8
When Eppie shifts her gaze from Godfrey to Silas, the action causes a "half-jealous yearning" in her father. Which of the following is true of this episode?
  • It demonstrates that Godfrey despises Silas
  • It foreshadows Eppie's later choice when faced with Godfrey's request
  • It demonstrates Godfrey's single-minded determination to be free of any claim Eppie might have on him
  • It demonstrates Godfrey's single-minded determination to raise his own daughter
Q.9
The narrator makes which of the following clear to the reader in this passage?
  • Godfrey will eventually confess
  • Silas will struggle to cope with Eppie
  • The villagers will be filled with disbelief that Silas wishes to keep Eppie
  • All of the above
Q.10
Which of the following is true of Mr Kimble's description of the mysterious, dead woman?
  • His description is admiring
  • His description is contemptuous
  • His description is ambivalent
  • His description is merely factual and has no other significance
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