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Nobody got all five answers right…though we think perhaps that was because we were not completely clear in our questions. Here are the answers:

1. Mr. Collins

2. (little more than) 16

3. (to her uncle’s in) Liverpool

4. This is one that was a problem. It’s not mentioned in the book, but in James Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt, Jane Austen, he says:

She would, if asked, tell us many little particulars about the subsequent career of some other people. In this traditionary way we learned that Miss Steele never succeeded in catching the Doctor; that Kitty Bennet was satisfactorily married to a clergyman near Pemberley, while Mary obtained nothing higher than one of her uncle Philip’s clerks, and was content to be considered a star in the society of Meriton; that the ‘considerable sum’ given by Mrs Norris to William Price was one pound; that Mr Woodhouse survived his daughter’s marriage, and kept her and Mr Knightley from settling at Donwell, about two years; and that the letters placed by Frank Churchill before Jane Fairfax, which she swept away unread, contained the word ‘pardon’. Of the good people in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion we know nothing more than what is written: for before those works were published their author had been taken away from us, and all such amusing communications had ceased for ever.

5. Most respondents said “The Bible,” which is correct, though what we had in mind was the Solemnization of Marriage from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine: upon the walls of thine house;
Thy children like the olive-branches: round about thy table.

However, since it’s taken from Psalm 128, of course it’s in the Bible. We won’t be picky about it. Though a few people did mention that the olive-branch was meant as a sign of fruitfulness, which is closer to what we were thinking.

Because of the confusion, everyone who sent in a response had a chance to win. Winners will be notified within the next couple of days. Thanks to everyone for playing, this was fun! We have to do this sort of thing more often.