Pride and Prejudice Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. After Lydia and Wickham are located, what does Darcy secretly do to help resolve the crisis?
He arranges the marriage and covers financial obligations connected with Wickham.
He offers Lydia a permanent home at Pemberley without requiring marriage.
He persuades Colonel Forster to restore Wickham’s military position.
He asks Lady Catherine to provide Lydia with a substantial inheritance.
2. How is Lady Catherine de Bourgh related to Mr. Darcy?
She is his godmother but not a relative.
She is his legal guardian.
She is his aunt.
She is his elder cousin.
3. According to Darcy’s letter, what had Wickham attempted to do involving Georgiana Darcy?
Elope with her in pursuit of her fortune
Convince her to surrender Pemberley to him
Arrange her marriage to Colonel Fitzwilliam
Expose her private correspondence to Lady Catherine
4. Charlotte Lucas knows Mr. Collins is not a romantic match. Why does she nevertheless accept him?
She hopes the marriage will make Elizabeth jealous.
She believes Collins will soon inherit a title from Lady Catherine.
She values the practical security and household the marriage provides.
She has been ordered to accept him by Sir William Lucas.
5. Who invites Lydia Bennet to accompany her to Brighton?
Jane Bennet
Kitty Bennet
Mrs. Forster
Lady Lucas
6. Why does Darcy initially help separate Bingley from Jane?
He knows Jane has already agreed to marry another man.
He believes Jane is indifferent and also objects to aspects of her family’s behavior and connections.
He wants Bingley to marry Georgiana so their estates can be combined.
He believes the Bennets deliberately concealed Jane’s existing engagement.
7. Where are Lydia and Wickham found after leaving Brighton together?
Ramsgate
Bath
Newcastle
London
8. What is Elizabeth’s central reason for refusing Mr. Collins’s proposal?
She has secretly promised to marry Wickham.
She believes they would not make each other happy.
She believes Collins cannot afford to support a household.
She intends never to marry under any circumstances.
9. Lady Catherine visits Elizabeth after hearing a rumor about Darcy. How does Elizabeth respond to her demand?
She refuses to promise that she will never marry Darcy.
She denies knowing Darcy and ends the conversation immediately.
She promises never to see Darcy again but refuses to explain why.
She agrees to withdraw if Anne de Bourgh confirms an engagement.
10. Which combination most strongly causes Elizabeth to reconsider her judgment of Darcy?
Mrs. Gardiner’s praise of his wealth and Bingley’s return to Netherfield
Lady Catherine’s approval and Collins’s account of Darcy’s family
Darcy’s explanatory letter and his considerate conduct at Pemberley
Wickham’s promotion and Lydia’s description of the Brighton officers
11. Which estate does Mr. Bingley rent near the Bennet family?
Rosings Park
Netherfield Park
Pemberley
Hunsford Parsonage
12. Which character development best expresses the novel’s movement beyond pride and prejudice?
Bingley becomes suspicious of Jane, while Jane learns to conceal her feelings.
Mr. Bennet becomes socially ambitious, while Mrs. Bennet rejects advantageous marriages.
Wickham acknowledges his mistakes, while Lydia adopts her sisters’ caution.
Darcy becomes more humble in his conduct, while Elizabeth revises judgments formed from first impressions.
13. At the Meryton assembly, what reason does Darcy give for declining to dance with Elizabeth?
He says he has promised every dance to Bingley’s sisters.
He says she is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt him.
He says he does not dance with women outside his own social circle.
He says she has already refused him earlier that evening.
14. Why is Mrs. Bennet especially anxious for her daughters to marry well?
The Bennet estate is entailed away from the daughters, making their future financial security uncertain.
Mr. Bennet has already promised equal portions of Longbourn to his daughters’ husbands.
The family must leave Longbourn as soon as the eldest daughter reaches adulthood.
Mrs. Bennet hopes marriage will allow the family to move permanently to London.
15. Mrs. Bennet sends Jane to Netherfield on horseback despite threatening rain. What result advances her matchmaking plan?
Jane’s horse runs away, prompting Darcy to escort her home.
Jane misses a ball and receives a written proposal instead.
Bingley follows Jane to Longbourn to return the horse.
Jane becomes ill and must remain at Netherfield for several days.
16. If Mr. Bennet dies without a son, who is positioned to inherit Longbourn under the entail?
Mr. Gardiner
Mr. Bingley
Colonel Fitzwilliam
Mr. Collins