Pride and Prejudice Chapters 48-52 Quiz (Chapters 48–52)

Pride and Prejudice Chapters 48-52 questions

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1. What does Mr Collins advise Mr Bennet to do in his letter about Lydia?
   To send the younger girls away from Longbourn · To pursue the couple to London without delay · To apply to Lady Catherine for her protection · To throw off his unworthy child for ever
2. On what terms does Mr Gardiner report that Wickham will marry Lydia?
   Her share of five thousand pounds and a hundred a year · A promise of ten thousand pounds from her father · A thousand pounds paid down by her uncle Gardiner · The living at Kympton, now in Mr Darcy's gift
3. How does Lydia behave on her return to Longbourn as a married woman?
   She refuses to speak of Brighton or of the journey · She claims Jane's place at table as her right · She begs Elizabeth's pardon for the alarm she caused · She apologises to her father before the whole family
4. 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
5. What does Mr Bennet regret as he reckons the cost of Lydia's marriage?
   That he had not sought to break the entail sooner · That he let Lydia go to Brighton unattended · That he refused to warn Colonel Forster in time · That he never laid by any savings of his own

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