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Quiz: The Women of Jane Austen

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Here are 10 questions to test your knowledge of the women in Jane Austen's novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Answer one click the next button and you'll be taken to the next. At the end you'll see how well you've done in relation to others.

When you are finished taking the quiz you will find an explanation of the answers at the bottom of this page in the answer summary.

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The Women of Jane Austen

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Answer Summary

1. In Sense and Sensibility, the Miss Dashwoods are Elinor (the eldest) Marianne and Margaret (the youngest).

2. In Sense and Sensibility, Elinor becomes very fond of Edward Ferrars.

3. In Pride and Prejudice, there are five Miss Bennets: Elizabeth, Jane, Lydia, Mary and Catherine.

4. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth has a love hate relationship with Fitzwilliam Darcy.

5. In Mansfield Park, Fanny falls in love with her cousin Edmund.

6. In the novel Emma, Emma Woodhouse vows to never marry.

7. In the Austen novel Emma, Emma Woodhouse encourages Miss Smith to refuse a proposal from a farmer.

8. In the novel Persuasion, Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry Captain Frederick Wentworth. Luckily she had a second chance to follow her hearts desire.

9. In the novel Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland has daydreams reminiscent of the novels she reads during the day.

10. In Northanger Abbey, thanks to John Thorpe, General Tilney inaccurately thinks that Catherine Morland is an heiress.

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