Pride and Prejudice Themes Quiz
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen · 14 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 11 min
Test your knowledge of Pride and Prejudice with 14 themes questions with answers and explanations — the big ideas and what the writer is saying about them. Ideal for revision once you have read the whole novel.
The big ideas and what the writer is saying about them. Drawn from the whole novel — contains spoilers.
Skills tested: Theme · Difficulty: Standard, Challenge, Easy
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- In the discussion of the assembly, how does Mary distinguish pride from vanity?
Pride grows with fortune, vanity with idle company · Pride concerns our opinion of ourselves, vanity others' · Pride is a man's failing, vanity a woman's weakness · Pride belongs to rank, vanity to beauty and dress
- 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
- Among his reasons for proposing, what does Mr Collins say he owes the Bennet family?
Gratitude for the hospitality shown him at Longbourn · A duty laid on him by his late father's friendship · Repayment of a debt his cousin once settled for him · Amends for standing to inherit their father's estate
- How does Charlotte justify her engagement when Elizabeth challenges her?
She has long admired his patroness and her style · She wishes to spare her sisters the trouble · She believes she can reform Mr Collins in time · She is not romantic and asks only a comfortable home
- What does Mrs Gardiner warn Elizabeth against in the matter of Wickham?
An attachment where neither party has a fortune · Repeating his account of Darcy outside the family · Letting Lydia and Kitty walk to Meryton with him · Believing a man who will not name his witnesses
- 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
- What does Elizabeth conclude about herself after rereading the letter?
That until that moment she had not known herself · That she had been too much guided by her sister · That she must tell her father everything at once · That she had wronged Jane by concealing Darcy's suit
- What does Mr Bennet answer when Elizabeth urges him to keep Lydia from Brighton?
That Mrs Bennet must decide the matter herself · That she is too young to be left among officers · That he will write to Mrs Forster to decline · That Colonel Forster will keep her from real mischief
- What strikes Elizabeth about Pemberley on her first view of the place?
That nature has been improved with no awkward taste · That the rooms are grander than those at Rosings · That the place has been neglected in the owner's absence · That the park is larger than the whole of Meryton
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What figure does Meryton attach to Mr Darcy's income?
Two thousand a year · Four thousand a year · Ten thousand a year · Five thousand a year
- Why does the visit to Pemberley alter Elizabeth's view of Darcy?
The house reveals an extravagance she had denied · His estate and his servants both testify for him · He is found to be in debt to his own steward · Georgiana proves to be proud and unwelcoming
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