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Silas Marner
George Eliot
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Part I, Chapters 1–2
Part I, Chapters 3–4
Part I, Chapters 5–6
Part I, Chapters 7–8
Part I, Chapters 9–10
Part I, Chapters 11–12
Part I, Chapters 13–15
Part II, Chapters 16–18
Part II, Chapters 19–21, Conclusion
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Silas Marner
Godfrey Cass
Nancy Lammeter
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Part 1, Chapters 1-2
Part 1, Chapters 3-4
Part 1, Chapters 5-6
Part 1, Chapters 7-8
Part 1, Chapters 9-10
Part 1, Chapters 11-12
Part 1, Chapters 13-15
Part 2, Chapters 16-18
Part 2, Chapters 19-21, Conclusion
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of 5
George Eliot is the pseudonym of which writer?
Laurie Lee
Emily Bronte
T.S. Eliot
Mary Ann Evans
2
of 5
Which city did Eliot move to after her mother's death?
Coventry
Bath
Darlington
Birmingham
3
of 5
Who persuaded Eliot to take up writing fiction?
Her father
Her partner
Her sister
Her aunt
4
of 5
Which writer influenced Eliot's work?
William Wordsworth
Dante
Baruch Spinoza
All of the above
5
of 5
Who is the author of the poem Eliot chose for an epigraph to Silas Marner?
Coleridge
Wordsworth
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
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