“The four greatest quizzes in the room”
Sorry to tease, but there’s actually only one quiz in the room. Jane Austen’s World points us to an online quiz on the Regency period. The Editrix scored 8 out of 10, and Dorothy has grounded her for a week.
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June 20th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Fun! I got 9/10. But although the quiz creator apparently knows a lot about the Regency period, I’m not sure she’s equally familiar with Jane Austen’s novels, if she writes:
“The type of vulgar behavior in which the Prince Regent so typically engaged received due censure in Austen’s novels.”
Prinnie was an over the top drunk, vain, womanizer, glutton, spendthrift and party animal. There are only a few characters I can think of that exhibits signs of (some of these)characteristics: Tom Bertram (party animal), Henry Crawford, and, of course, the actual, wicked seducers Wickham and Willoughby. Is Frank Churchill’s travelling to London to get his hair cut supposed to count?
It seems to me what she censured most of all in her characters was not necessarily ‘vice’, but thoughtlessness, arrogance, manipulation and self-centered coldness towards others in all its manifestations.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:27 am
I got 9/10! I agree with Karanlee: there weren’t really many directly Austen-related questions, but still great fun to do.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Don’t worry Mags, I got 8 out of 10 as well. However I have some reservations about question #10 since they got their information from “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew”. This was the Regency period not the Victorian period. I have been under the impression that as long as a man and a woman hada been previously introduced, then a man could at least speak to her if he sees her in public. Also this statement was strange:
“However, if unmarried and under thirty no lady should be in the un-chaperoned company of a gentleman in any case.”
There are instances in Jane Austens own books where ladies and gentleman walk and converse unchaperoned. So I would have to say the author of this quiz might be mistaken in their information. What say you? What is your own opinion?
June 20th, 2007 at 9:02 am
I got 8/10 too! Didn’t know much about the markets and got Q10 wrong too. I’m pretty happy with that. Think the wording of some of the questions could easily lead to misinterpretations though.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I got 9/10! Although the book “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew” mixes the Regency and Victorian periods, I believe that the answer to q10 is correct.
If a woman bows to a man, it just means that she knows him and acnowledges this to be so, however it is by no means an invitation to open a conversation. This was the prerogative of the lady.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
9/10. I got the Billingsgate question wrong.
June 21st, 2007 at 3:27 am
I got 10 of 10.
It was an interesting quiz.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Ooh, a 9/10 — not too shabby! Fun quiz!
June 24th, 2007 at 11:34 am
And I got 10 out of 10 too. Reading every one ofGeorgette Heyer’s books has paid off.
June 24th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
I got 9/10, and thus emphatically agree with others about “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew”. Had I been paying more attention during my reread of “The Corinthian”, I might have got the last one.