Jane Austen Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which comparison best captures the contrast between the two central Dashwood sisters?
Elinor seeks social excitement, while Marianne avoids emotional attachments
Elinor usually exercises restraint, while Marianne expresses feeling more openly
Elinor distrusts literature, while Marianne judges people only by their wealth
Elinor rejects family duty, while Marianne consistently puts duty first
2. Which unfinished Austen novel follows Charlotte Heywood to a developing seaside resort?
Lady Susan
Sanditon
Love and Freindship
The Watsons
3. A confident young woman tries to match Harriet Smith with Mr. Elton, badly misreading his intentions. In which novel does this happen?
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
4. Which heroine is sent from her financially struggling family in Portsmouth to live with wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park?
Georgiana Darcy
Jane Fairfax
Harriet Smith
Fanny Price
5. A clergyman repeatedly praises his aristocratic patron and treats marriage proposals as practical arrangements. Which character best fits this description?
Edmund Bertram
Edward Ferrars
Mr. Collins
Henry Tilney
6. In Emma, which concealed relationship explains much of Frank Churchill’s misleading behavior?
He is secretly married to Harriet Smith
He is financially dependent on Mr. Woodhouse
He is secretly engaged to Jane Fairfax
He is planning to challenge Mr. Knightley over an inheritance
7. Which character is the owner of Donwell Abbey?
Mr. Knightley
Mr. Bingley
Colonel Brandon
Sir Thomas Bertram
8. What author credit appeared on the title page of the first edition of Sense and Sensibility?
Jane Austen
By a Lady
An Englishwoman
The Author of Pride and Prejudice
9. Because the Bennet family estate is entailed, what consequence shapes the marriage concerns in Pride and Prejudice?
The estate must be sold when Mr. Bennet dies
Jane must marry before any younger sister can inherit money
The Bennet daughters cannot inherit Longbourn, which is expected to pass to Mr. Collins
Longbourn automatically becomes Mr. Darcy’s property after his marriage
10. Which novel most directly connects naval careers and prize money with changing social status after wartime service?
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Emma
Northanger Abbey
11. How is Lady Catherine de Bourgh related to Mr. Darcy?
She is his widowed sister-in-law
She is his older sister
She is his godmother but not a relative
She is his aunt
12. Which heroine was persuaded to end an engagement with Captain Wentworth before the events of her novel?
Emma Woodhouse
Elinor Dashwood
Fanny Price
Anne Elliot
13. Which Bennet sister elopes with George Wickham?
Lydia Bennet
Mary Bennet
Kitty Bennet
Jane Bennet
14. After reading Gothic fiction, a heroine suspects sinister secrets at an abbey and must reconsider her imagination. Who is she?
Catherine Morland
Elizabeth Bennet
Anne Elliot
Marianne Dashwood
15. Which novel opens with the observation that a wealthy single man must be in want of a wife?
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
16. Captain Wentworth writes the declaration beginning “You pierce my soul” to which character?
Louisa Musgrove
Elizabeth Elliot
Anne Elliot
Mrs. Smith