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Quiz about Polite Intercourse in Jane Austen Novels

Polite Intercourse in Jane Austen Novels Quiz

I'll give you a line of dialogue from one of the six main JA novels. You find the character who said it or wrote it in a letter. Good luck! PS--please join Friends Group #116, the Jane Austen Lovers group (see homepage).

A multiple-choice quiz by robynraymer. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
robynraymer

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
80,938

Updated
Dec 03 21

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1. "The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence." Hint

Mr. Darcy

Mr. Collins

Sir John Middleton

Sir Walter Elliot

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2. "I am sorry for Miss Crawford; but I am more sorry to see you drawn in to do what you had resolved against, and what you are known to think will be disagreeable to my uncle." Hint

Miss Fanny Price

Miss Emma Woodhouse

Miss Elinor Dashwood

Miss Julia Bertram

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3. "But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously." Hint

Lady Russell

Mr. Bennet

Mr. Woodhouse

Admiral Croft

4. "I rejoice to say that the young man whom, of all others, I particularly abhor, has left Bath. You will know, from this description, that I must mean Captain Tilney, who, as you may remember, was amazingly disposed to follow and tease me, before you went away." Hint

Harriet Smith

Isabella Thorpe

Elizabeth Elliot

Lucy Steele

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5. "I was to give place to Lord St. Ives, and a certain Admiral Baldwin, the most deplorable-looking personage you can imagine; his face the colour of mahogany, rough and rugged to the last degree; all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side, and nothing but a dab of powder at top." Hint

Captain Wentworth

Sir Walter Elliot

Sir John Middleton

Admiral Crawford

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6. "Are you going near Camden Place? Because, if you are, I shall have no scruple in asking you to take my place, and give Anne your arm to her father's door." Hint

Henry Crawford

Captain Benwick

Captain Harville

Charles Musgrove

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7. "Miss Elizabeth Bennet! I am all astonishment. How long has she been such a favourite?--and pray, when am I to wish you joy?" Hint

Miss Georgiana Darcy

Miss Lucy Steele

Miss Caroline Bingley

Miss Isabella Thorpe

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8. "Thank you, my dear Fanny, but I and my gown are alive and well, and so good-bye." Hint

Miss Maria Lucas

Mrs. Mary Musgrove

Miss Mary Crawford

Miss Maria Bertram

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9. "You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together. My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel." Hint

Mr. John Knightley

Mr. Perry

Mr. George Knightley

Mr. Woodhouse

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10. "Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? Have you not received my letters? Will you not shake hands with me?" Hint

Miss Lucy Steele

Miss Elinor Dashwood

Miss Marianne Dashwood

Miss Margaret Dashwood

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11. "Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications." Hint

Mr. Collins

Mr. Wickham

Mr. Willoughby

Mr. Elliot

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12. "Stay, stay, Fanny! What are you about? Where are you going? Don't be in such a hurry. Depend upon it, it is not you who are wanted; depend upon it, it is me" (looking at the butler) "but you are so very eager to put yourself forward." Hint

Aunt Philips

Aunt Gardiner

Aunt Norris

Aunt Bertram

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13. "A pretty good lecture, upon my word. Was it part of your last sermon? At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey." Hint

Miss Mary Crawford

Miss Lydia Bennet

Miss Elizabeth Bennet

Miss Marianne Dashwood

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14. "Lord! we shall sit and gape at one another as dull as two cats." Hint

Mrs. Bennet

Mrs. Jennings

Lady Bertram

Mrs. Bates

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15. "Oh! I began to think my caro sposo would be absolutely jealous. I fancy I am rather a favourite; he took notice of my gown. How do you like it? Selina's choice--handsome, I think, but I do not know whether it is overtrimmed; quite a horror of finery." Hint

Mrs. Elton

Miss Isabella Thorpe

Mrs. Ferrars

Mrs. Bennet

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence."

Answer: Mr. Collins

Mr. Collins of "Pride and Prejudice" is speaking of his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. She is his favorite conversation topic.

2. "I am sorry for Miss Crawford; but I am more sorry to see you drawn in to do what you had resolved against, and what you are known to think will be disagreeable to my uncle."

Answer: Miss Fanny Price

"Mansfield Park" heroine Fanny Price, speaking to her beloved cousin Edmund, is expressing her disappointment that he has decided against his better judgement to act in an amateur theatrical production with his siblings and friends. Both Edmund and Fanny feel that the scheme is improper.

3. "But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously."

Answer: Mr. Woodhouse

Fussy old Mr. Woodhouse ("Emma") is referring to his daughter Emma's claim that she made a match between her governess, Miss Taylor, and Mr. Weston. This took Miss Taylor away from Mr. Woodhouse's "family circle."

Answer: Isabella Thorpe

In a letter to Catherine Morland, who is staying at Northanger Abbey, Isabella Thorpe writes about Captain Tilney, the flirtatious officer for whom Isabella jilted Catherine's brother James. Now that Captain Tilney has left her in the lurch, manipulative Miss Thorpe is trying to get Catherine to help her repair the bridge she so blithely burnt.

Answer: Sir Walter Elliot

In "Persuasion," Anne Elliot's snooty father, Sir Walter is obsessed with people's looks. He thinks that he, Sir Walter, is the handsomest man in the world, and that Anne's older sister, Elizabeth is the most beautiful.

6. "Are you going near Camden Place? Because, if you are, I shall have no scruple in asking you to take my place, and give Anne your arm to her father's door."

Answer: Charles Musgrove

In "Persuasion," Anne Elliot's brother-in-law Charles unwittingly opens the way for a longed-for tete-a-tete between Anne and her admirer, Captain Wentworth. This is one of the best love scenes in JA's fiction, in my opinion. I love this phrase: "spirits dancing in private rapture."

7. "Miss Elizabeth Bennet! I am all astonishment. How long has she been such a favourite?--and pray, when am I to wish you joy?"

Answer: Miss Caroline Bingley

Miss Bingley, who wants Mr. Darcy for herself, is being sarcastic here.

8. "Thank you, my dear Fanny, but I and my gown are alive and well, and so good-bye."

Answer: Miss Maria Bertram

In "Mansfield Park," Fanny's cousin Maria, who is engaged to Mr. Rushworth, slips around the edge of a gate into a "wilderness" with Mr. Crawford, the man with whom she is in love.

9. "You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together. My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel."

Answer: Mr. Woodhouse

Emma's invalid father is so fond of gruel that he believes everyone must like it as well as he does.

10. "Good God! Willoughby, what is the meaning of this? Have you not received my letters? Will you not shake hands with me?"

Answer: Miss Marianne Dashwood

After a long separation, Marianne sees her beloved Willoughby at a party. Inexplicably, he snubs her. She later learns that he is engaged to another. After that she learns that he seduced Colonel Brandon's ward!

11. "Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications."

Answer: Mr. Collins

After Elizabeth rejects his marriage proposal ("Pride and Prejudice"), her pompous cousin Mr. Collins warns her that she may not get another offer.

Answer: Aunt Norris

Aunt Norris ("Mansfield Park") is a true Austenian villainess: she takes every opportunity to make her niece Fanny feel like a poor relation (which is what she is).

13. "A pretty good lecture, upon my word. Was it part of your last sermon? At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey."

Answer: Miss Mary Crawford

Mary says this to Edmund Bertram ("Mansfield Park") after he tells her what he thinks of her breezy attitude toward his sister Maria's adulterous affair with Mary's brother, Henry.

14. "Lord! we shall sit and gape at one another as dull as two cats."

Answer: Mrs. Jennings

In "Sense and Sensibility," Mrs. Jennings says this to Colonel Brandon as she anticipates how "forlorn" she and he will be in London without the Miss Dashwoods, who are going home to Barton.

Answer: Mrs. Elton

In "Emma," Mrs. Elton is whispering to Jane Fairfax about old Mr. Woodhouse's gallant civilities to her during a dinner party at Hartfield. A vain, shallow, and somewhat nasty social climber, Mrs. Elton has just married the man that Emma tried to match with Harriet Smith.

Source: Author robynraymer

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