So You Think You Know Jane Austen?
Alert AustenBlog Reader Kirsty sent us a link to a quiz culled from the new book So You Think You Know Jane Austen? by John Sutherland and Deirdre LeFaye, which is currently available in the U.K. and will be published in June in the U.S.
(The Editrix got 16 out of 18 correct, and on the two she missed originally chose the correct answer but then reconsidered it and changed them. There’s a lesson in there for all of you preparing to sit your SATs and GCSEs.)
Thanks for the link, Kirsty!
March 6th, 2005 at 3:02 pm
There’s another one on the BBC Today Programme website, along with a gallery of stills from BBC adaptations of the novels - links here
March 7th, 2005 at 7:28 am
OK, only 12 of 18.
But in MP, NA and S&S, the novels I don’t love so much as P&P, Emma and Persuasion.
March 7th, 2005 at 7:29 am
OK, only 12 of 18.
But in MP, NA and S&S, the novels I don’t love so much as P&P, Emma and Persuasion.
And to the other link BBC Radio. I think the answer 12 is wrong.
The greatest age difference is between Mr. and Mrs Brandon. The difference between Mrs and Mrs Knightley ist 16 years.
And Marianne is 17 years old. And if Col. Brandon is older then 33 years old (and I’m sure about it) they have the greatest age difference.
What do you think?
March 7th, 2005 at 8:38 am
I think the answer to the last question (why did Darcy inititally slight Lizzy) is wrong. He thought she was “used goods?” He was referring to her lack of a partner during the dance, not some sordid love affair in her past.
March 7th, 2005 at 8:42 am
Wasn’t Robert Ferrars shopping a toothpick case, not a single toothpick?
March 7th, 2005 at 10:07 am
The one on the BBC is totally screwy. Who is Maria Crawford? (I’m sure they mean Mary.) And the answer to the first question is not one of the selections, even if they were being esoteric (and Edward Ferrars is decidedly NOT esoteric, which was the whole point of that comment). And Cairbre is absolutely right about the toothpick–it WAS a toothpick case.
Q. 7 also isn’t quite right. A jointure is a widow’s portion, not a bank account.
Two of the answers to Q. 8 are just plain offensive.
The answer to Q. 11–does Willoughby deny he is drunk? I thought he said he was drunk.
This is all very interesting.
March 7th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
I got 15 out of 18 correct. I should have known that Lady Russell’s favorite past-time is reading, though I was plain lucky on picking Miss Tillney’s first name!
March 7th, 2005 at 3:01 pm
I got 15 of 18 correct, too. I should have known the H.M. sloop Thrush from Mansfield Park, but I thought the Thrush was one of Captain Wentworth’s ships thrown in as a trick. What fun! Thanks for the link.
March 7th, 2005 at 3:42 pm
I feel that I must show off a little:
You scored 18 out of a possible 18
Are you, perhaps, a time-traveller from the 18th century? Congratulations: have ten thousand a year. You are more than ready to tackle the quiz book itself.
March 7th, 2005 at 5:48 pm
I scored 17 out of 18. These quizzes are fun.
March 8th, 2005 at 10:24 am
I’m guessing the BBC were suffering from nasal congestion when they wrote the caption to this picture
March 9th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
16 of 18 on the first (same as the HP, so not too embarressed). 12 of 16 on the other, but I think it should be 14, because of “used goods” (HUH??) and I’m certain that there’s more than 17 years between Colonel Brandon and Marianne.
March 9th, 2005 at 10:17 pm
I’m certain that there’s more than 17 years between Colonel Brandon and Marianne
Nineteen years, to be specific. From S&S V. III Ch. XIII:
“A three weeks’ residence at Delaford, where, in his evening hours at least, he had little to do but to calculate the disproportion between thirty-six and seventeen, brought him to Barton in a temper of mind which needed all the improvement in Marianne’s looks, all the kindness of her welcome, and all the encouragement of her mother’s language, to make it cheerful.”