Jane Austen Trivia and Quizzes

This is a collection format quiz in which you are given a list of characters from Jane Austen's novels - mixed in with characters from other well known works of literature. Can you find twelve of Jane's characters?

Who doesn't love the dashing men from Jane Austen's novels? Take this quiz and see how well you know them! Recommended for grades: 11,12

How well do you know Jane Austen's minor characters? Match the following characters to the books in which they appear.

Don't get me wrong, I love Jane Austen's novels. But there are certain types of character that appear in more that one of her works. How well do you know her characters?

A wide range of questions on all of Jane Austen's books and a few on her life.

All of Jane Austen's heroes and heroines had at least one brother or sister. Can you match each set of siblings with the surname they shared (at least until some of the sisters got married)? Recommended for grades: 11,12

This quiz is about those ladies in Jane Austen's works who actually held the title of 'Lady'. Recommended for grades: 11,12

Every Jane Austen plot hinges on one or more romances (real and imagined). How much do you know about romantic attachments among JA characters? PS--please join Friends Group #116, the Jane Austen Lovers group (see homepage).

Jane Austen managed to match up and marry off quite a few couples during the course of her six completed novels. Take this quiz to find out how much you remember about the circumstances around how they first met.

The lines "Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show, / Of touch or marble; nor canst boast a row" open Ben Jonson's 'To Penshurst', an archetypal country house poem. This quiz is about country houses (not called Penshurst) in works by Austen.