1. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England in what year? 1817 1975 1775 1875

2. Jane Austen was the daughter of a country parson, and was the second youngest child of the family. How many sisters did Jane Austen have? 4 1 6 2

3. Like many women of her day, Jane Austen was a prolific letter writer. The letters that have survived have been published and show her razor wit. Though she corresponded with many people, the person she corresponded most with was whom? Martha Fanny Mary Cassandra

4. A trip to Bath to visit her Uncle James and Aunt Cassandra Perrot is generally accepted to be the catalyst for one of her earliest novels. By which name do we know this novel? Pride and Prejudice Northanger Abbey Mansfield Park Persuasion

5. Jane Austen's novels underwent style and title changes before being published. Which novel is thought to have been originally written in epistolary form and was first called "First Impressions"? Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Persuasion Sanditon

6. Jane Austen's immediate family was filled with intelligent, enterprising and hard-working people. She had two brothers who were sailors who rose to the rank of Admiral. Two of her novels made plain her admiration for the Navy. Which of her brothers were they? James and Henry Edward and George Jack and John Francis and Charles

7. In which two novels did Jane Austen's admiration of the Navy show much evidence? Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility Emma/Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey/The Watsons Persuasion/Mansfield Park

8. Screenwriters often change circumstances and names or delete characters when adapting novels to film. Which of the answers below was NOT a change made from the novel to the screen adaptation? Persuasion (1995 starring Amanda Root): Fanny Harville's name is changed to Phoebe Harville Sense & Sensibility (1985 starring Winslet & Thompson): Anne Steele is nowhere to be found in the film. Sense & Sensibility (1985 starring Winslet and Thompson): Lady Middleton has died in the film. Persuasion (1995 starring Amanda Root): Sir Walter Elliott is not vain in the novel but is in the 1995 film

9. In the 1985 film "Sense and Sensibility", starring Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson, who screams, "Viper in my bosom!" when she hears of her brother's engagement to a woman with neither fortune nor sense? Charlotte Palmer Fanny Ferrars Dashwood Mrs. Jennings Mrs. Ferrars

10. The first two of Jane Austen's novels which she submitted for publication were met with disdain by the publishers. One was turned down out of hand without being read, the other was bought but never published during Jane's lifetime. Which two novels were they? (I've used the names we know them by now). Sanditon and The Watsons Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey Emma and Mansfield Park

11. Jane wrote one epistolary form novel, entitled "Lady Susan", which was also published in epistolary form. True False

12. There was a particular place that Jane Austen visited which she loved. She writes of it in one of her novels. There is a great quote about this place in the novel, "...and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of..." What is the name of this place? Bath Derby Southhampton Lyme

13. During her lifetime Jane Austen lived in Steventon, Bath, Southampton and Chawton. True False

14. Jane Austen died before she could finish a novel she'd intended to call "The Brothers". Subsequent to her death, it has been finished by a number of people, including her own neice, Anna. What is the name of the novel as we know it now? Persuasion Jason and His Brothers Emmaline Sanditon

15. Jane Austen died on 18 July, 1817, at the age of only 41. She'd been moved to another city to be close to her physician and was buried in that city's well known cathedral of the same name. What is the name of that city and cathedral? Answer: (One Word)