What is it?
This vocabulary term refers to a ghostly figure in its physical form. Silas looked like one the night his gold was stolen.
What is an apparition?
This is the author of the novel.
Who is George Eliot?
Who is Silas Marner?
This character blackmails his own brother and eventually steals Silas's hard-earned money.
Who is Dunstan "Dunsey" Cass?
This is Godfrey's cruel, greedy father.
Who is Squire Cass?
This vocabulary terms refers to the state of being neat and trim in one's appearance. Nancy Lammeter embodies it well.
What is nattiness?
Silas Marner was written in this century, which refers to the 1800s.
What is the nineteenth century?
“You must bring her up like christened folks’ children and take her to church…as my little Aaron [has attended].”
Who is Dolly Winthrop?
This character frames Silas, steals his fiancée, and causes Silas's downfall in Lantern Yard.
Who is William Dane?
This opiate addict is secretly married to Godfrey Cass, and she plans to reveal everything at the New Year's celebration.
Who is Molly Farren?
This term refers to something being large in number or consisting of many different parts. It describes the amount of candles at Squire Cass's home.
What is multitudinous?
The setting of Silas Marner is mainly in this fictional, rural English village, especially after Silas left Lantern Yard.
What is Raveloe?
"You know that isn't true. You know one dance with you matters more to me than all the other pleasures in the world."
(Hint: It's not Cardi B referencing Stefon Diggs).
Who is Godfrey Cass?
This character is directly responsible for the death of Wildfire.
Who is Dunstan "Dunsey" Cass?
This character is Nancy Lammeter's sister. (She is not known for her overwhelming beauty).
Who is Priscilla Lammeter?
This vocabulary term means deserving blame for a wrongdoing or crime, which is what Godfrey's brother should have felt.
What is culpable?
The author's real name is this. Though, she had to change it to be taken seriously in a male-dominated literary world.
What is Mary Ann Evans?
"Thank you, ma'm--thank you, sir, for your offers--they're very great, and far above my wish. For I should have no delight i' life any more if I was forced to go away from my father..."
Who is Eppie?
This character pays for new furniture and general upkeep at Silas and Eppie's cottage.
Who is Godfrey Cass?
This good-natured character marries Eppie at the end of the novel.
Who is Aaron Winthrop?
This vocabulary term means to persuade or manipulate someone into doing something.
What is cajole?
This colorful term describes where the Cass family lives. It's also similar to one of Taylor Swift's previous albums.
What is Red House?
"Dear Godfrey, don't ask me to do what I know is wrong: I should never be happy again. I know it's very hard for you--it's easier for me--but it's the will of Providence."
Who is Nancy Lammeter?
This character goes with Silas to Lantern Yard to see if Silas's name has been cleared from the past wrongdoing.
Who is Eppie?
This minor character is who Silas originally thought stole his gold.
Who is Jem Rodney?