Silas Marner Quizzes

1. What is George Eliot's real name?

• Mary Ann Evans
• Mary Lewes
• John Blackwood
• Herbert Spencer

2. What is Silas Marner's trade?

• wheelwright
• cooper
• weaver
• farrier

3. In what actual region is the fictional village of Raveloe located?

• The English Midlands
• The outskirts of London
• Rhone, France
• The Scottish Highlands

4. What conflict is taking place during Part One of Silas Marner?

• The Hundred Years' War
• The American Revolutionary War
• The Napoleonic Wars
• World War I

5. Silas Marner is

• deaf
• lame
• blind
• nearsighted

6. Silas Marner suffers from

• a clubfoot
• epileptic fits
• a harelip
• cataleptic fits

7. The congregation at Lantern Yard was

• Jewish
• Mormon
• Puritan
• Anglican

8. Silas Marner learned about herbal remedies from

• his mother
• his minister in Lantern Yard
• Eppie
• a book

9. Who was the first person to pay Marner in gold?

• Mrs. Osgood
• Sally Oates
• Mrs. Lammeter
• Mrs. Winthrop

10. What is the name of Squire Cass's manor?

• The Warrens
• The Haven
• The Red House
• The Orchards