British Classical Women Writers

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

2. Which Austen novel was originally called 'First Impressions'? 'Pride and Prejudice' 'Emma' 'Mansfield Park' '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? Jodie Earle Jennifer Earle Jennifer Ehle Jodie Ehle

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 Prince Angnes Prince Anges Price Fanny Price

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

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? Lowood Millocte Eppingham Brocklehurst

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

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

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

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

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

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