Pride and Prejudice Challenge Quiz

Pride and Prejudice Challenge questions

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1. The novel opens by declaring it a truth universally acknowledged that a rich single man must want a wife. What does the chapter then reveal about that "truth"?
   It is the view of neighbours with daughters, not of the man · It is Mr Bennet's settled opinion, stated in his own words · It is a maxim Mary has copied from a book of sermons · It is Charlotte Lucas's advice to the Bennet daughters
2. Chapter 7 explains why the Bennet daughters cannot inherit Longbourn. What is the arrangement?
   Mrs Bennet's fortune was spent on the daughters' keep · The estate is entailed away on a distant male relation · Mr Bennet has mortgaged it to pay his wife's debts · The estate must be sold to settle an old lawsuit
3. Why does Mr Collins transfer his matrimonial choice from Jane to Elizabeth?
   Lady Catherine recommended a second daughter to him · Elizabeth alone shows him civility at Longbourn · Mrs Bennet hints that Jane may soon be engaged · He learns that Jane's portion is the smaller one
4. During their dance at Netherfield, how does Elizabeth describe the likeness between herself and Darcy?
   As a duel fought with civility instead of words · As a lesson in dancing she would rather not learn · As two people unwilling to speak unless to astonish · As a silence that must be broken by some remark
5. What does Caroline Bingley's letter to Jane imply about her brother's plans?
   That the party has left Netherfield for the winter · That he has quarrelled with Darcy over Jane · That he has taken a house in Derbyshire instead · That he will return to Hertfordshire by Christmas
6. What does Elizabeth make of Wickham's sudden attentions to Miss King?
   That he has been advised to it by Colonel Forster · That her ten thousand pounds explain the attachment · That he means to provoke Elizabeth into jealousy · That he wishes to leave Meryton without scandal
7. What does Colonel Fitzwilliam unknowingly reveal to Elizabeth on their walk in the park?
   That Darcy means to leave Rosings within the week · That Darcy is engaged to his cousin Anne de Bourgh · That Darcy saved a friend from an imprudent marriage · That Darcy paid off a young man's gaming debts
8. Darcy's letter answers the two charges Elizabeth laid against him. What are they?
   His conduct towards Jane and towards Georgiana · His conduct towards Bingley and towards Collins · His conduct towards Jane and towards Wickham · His conduct towards Wickham and towards Miss King
9. How does the narrator account for Mr Bennet's marriage at the opening of Chapter 42?
   He was captivated by youth, beauty and good humour · He married to secure the estate against the entail · He was pressed into it by his wife's brother Gardiner · He chose a wife whose fortune would clear his debts
10. What does Jane's second letter report about Lydia and Wickham?
    That they were married at Gretna Green that morning · That they are thought to be in London, not Scotland · That Wickham has left the militia for the regulars · That Colonel Forster has brought Lydia back to Brighton
11. What does Mrs Gardiner's letter reveal about who arranged Lydia's marriage?
    That Lady Catherine intervened to avoid a scandal · That Mr Gardiner settled it from his own fortune · That Darcy found the couple and paid Wickham's debts · That Colonel Forster traced them through Mrs Younge
12. On what ground does Elizabeth refuse Lady Catherine the promise she asks?
    That Darcy has already been refused once by her · That she owes Lady Catherine no civility at all · That her father alone can dispose of her hand · That she will act as she thinks will make her happy
13. What dominates Mrs Bennet's response to Elizabeth's engagement?
    Her daughter's ten thousand a year · Whether Lady Catherine will permit the match · Her own long dislike of Darcy's manners · Whether Longbourn can now escape the entail
14. Austen often reports a character's thinking in the narrator's own voice. Which passage works this way?
    Lady Catherine's interrogation of Elizabeth at Rosings · Elizabeth's reflections on rereading Darcy's letter · Lydia's note left behind for Mrs Forster at Brighton · Mr Collins's letter advising Mr Bennet about Lydia
15. What does Mr Bennet acknowledge to Elizabeth after Lydia's elopement?
    That the blame for it is partly his own · That Mrs Bennet had warned him about Brighton · That Elizabeth should have exposed Wickham · That Colonel Forster neglected his duty to Lydia

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