British Classical Women Writers

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1. Which George Eliot novel is subtitled 'A Study Of Provincial Life'? 'The Mill On The Floss' 'Adam Bede' 'Silas Marner' 'Middlemarch'

2. Which Austen novel was originally called 'First Impressions'? 'Mansfield Park' 'Pride and Prejudice' 'Emma' 'Sense and Sensibility'

3. Whom does Emma take under her wing in the novel of the same name? Harvey Smith Henryetta Smith Harriet Smith Heidi Smith

4. Which Austen novel was first called 'Elinor and Marianne'? 'Persuasion' 'Emma' 'Northanger Abby' 'Sense and Sensibility'

5. Who played Elizabeth Bennet in British TV's 'Pride and Prejudice' in 1995? Jennifer Earle Jennifer Ehle Jodie Ehle Jodie Earle

6. Who are Sir Walter Elliot's three daughters in 'Persuasion'? Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary Elizabeth, Anne, Mary Joanna, Anne, Mary Elizabeth, Anne, Catherine

7. In 'Mansfield Park', what is the name of the heroine? Fanny Price Anges Price Fanny Prince Angnes Prince

8. In which Austen novel does the reader meet Catherine Morland? 'Persuasion' 'Northanger Abbey' 'Pride and Prejudice' 'Sense and Sensibility'

9. In 'Jane Eyre', what is the name of the asylum based on Cowan Bridge where Charlotte Bronte's sisters contracted the consumption from which they died? Eppingham Lowood Millocte Brocklehurst

10. Of the Bronte sisters that survived to adulthood, which was the eldest? Anne Charlotte Emily Catherine

11. Which pseudonyms did the Bronte sisters use when they published a collection of poems in 1846? Currer, Eton and Adam Bell Curser, Eton and Acton Bell Cuser, Ellis and Adam Bell Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

12. Which two novels did Anne Bronte write? 'Jane Eyre', 'Agnes Grey' 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', 'Agnes Grey' 'The Tenent of Wildfell Hall', 'Wuthering Heights' 'Jane Eyre,' 'Wuthering Heights'

13. In 'Wuthering Heights', whom does Heathcliff marry? Cathy Isabella Catherine No one, he dies engaged to one of these ladies

14. Which author of 'Cranford' wrote the 'Life of Charlotte Bronte' in 1857? Edith Nesbit Jane Austen Elizabeth Gaskell George Elliot

15. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'Tale of horror'? 'Bleak House' 'Heart of Darkness' 'Frankenstein' 'Crime and Punishment'