silas marner quotes

Question 1

silas money/ love/ rich/

Answer 1

‘drew them out to enjoy their companionship’

Question 2

godfrey / distan / squire - entitlement bad father/spoilt / rich/

Answer 2

‘kept his sons at home in idleness’

Question 3

godfrey money solving problems/ rich/ materialistic/ eppie

Answer 3

‘she’d always be grateful to him’ - if he gave eppie money

Question 4

silas - eppie coming back as his gold/ love of eppie over gold

Answer 4

‘his own gold brought back’

Question 5

nancy good angel for godfrey - saves him

Answer 5

‘draw him safe to the green banks’

Question 6

nancy unwilling to change

Answer 6

‘unalterable little code’

Question 7

nancy - selfless

Answer 7

‘a woman could be satisfied devoting herself to her husband’

Question 8

nancy - perfect housewife/ red house lack of woman

Answer 8

‘great change came over the dark wainscotted parlour’

Question 9

silas loves eppie/ immediate bond

Answer 9

‘i can’t part with it’

Question 10

eppie as smart

Answer 10

convinces aaron to make her a garden

Question 11

eppie neglected by godfrey / betrayal / lack of love

Answer 11

‘father would be happier not owning the girl’

Question 12

eppie and silas happy/ love

Answer 12

‘i think no one could be happier than we are’

Question 13

eppie opened silas to community and saved him/ silas in community

Answer 13

‘met with open smiling faces’
when with eppie

Question 14

godfrey and molly - lack of love/ hatred/ secret

Answer 14

‘terror in his heart that the woman may be alive’

Question 15

cass family relationship hatred

Answer 15

‘active expression of hatred’

Question 16

squire cass wealthy and well respected/ cass family rich

Answer 16

‘greatest man in raveloe’

Question 17

squire cass temper

Answer 17

‘fits of unrelentingness’

Question 18

Priscilla not a wife against normality

Answer 18

‘that way of men always wanting and wanting’

Question 19

Priscilla independent

Answer 19

‘manages me and the farm’

Question 20

priscilla seen as worse sister

Answer 20

‘for i am ugly’

Question 21

silas isolation

Answer 21

‘never strolled into village to drink’

Question 22

silas religion / trust in god

Answer 22

‘god will clear me’

Question 23

silas loss of religion

Answer 23

‘there is no just god’

Question 24

dustin manipulating godfrey

Answer 24

‘i might get you turned out of house and home’
gambled away money

Question 25

godfrey weak minded/ secrecy/

Answer 25

‘moral cowardice’ rather live ‘with the sword hanging over him and terror in his heart’

Question 26

godfrey good reputation

Answer 26

‘good natured young man’

Question 27

dunstan selfish

Answer 27

‘who woudl know that anyone had come to take it away’ steals money

Question 28

dustan poorly respected vs godfrey

Answer 28

‘delight in lying’ ‘it was godfrey a whip’

Question 29

silas coming out of isolation

Answer 29

‘fence was broken down’

Question 30

distrust of outsiders - peddler

Answer 30

‘earrings… made her blood creep’

Question 31

william betraying silas

Answer 31

‘sarah was married to william’

Question 32

silas trusting eppie

Answer 32

‘i won’t stand in your way’ (going to G/N)

Question 33

dolly religious bringing up eppie religious

Answer 33

‘bring her up like the christened folks children’

Question 34

religion bringing community together

Answer 34

‘come to church and be a bit neighbourly’

Question 35

dolly kind

Answer 35

‘i hope they bring good to you’ - cake

Question 36

dolly good mother

Answer 36

‘this goes first then the skin’ helps with eppie

Question 37

dolly always wants to help

Answer 37

‘eager for duties’

Question 38

godfrey revealing eppie

Answer 38

‘eppie is my child’

Question 39

rainbow sticking up for each other

Answer 39

‘mustn’t be casting your eye at poor Jem’