Knowledge quizzes
Jane Austen trivia
Sixteen sample questions from Dear Jane’s knowledge quizzes. Open each one to check your answer. The app has eighteen full trivia quizzes of ten questions each: one hundred and eighty in all. This page is a taste, not the set.
Sample questions
How well do you know Austen?
Quotes, plots, proposals, estates, and a little of Austen’s own life. Spoilers for the six novels, as any honest trivia must have.
Who said: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”?
The narrator of Pride and Prejudice. Mrs Bennet soon proves the sentiment her own, but she does not utter the opening line.
Who said: “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you”?
Mr Darcy, to Elizabeth Bennet, at the Hunsford parsonage during his first proposal.
Complete the line: “My good opinion once lost…”
is lost for ever. Mr Darcy says this at Netherfield.
A heroine visits an abbey and suspects her host of murder. Which novel?
Northanger Abbey. Catherine Morland, steeped in Gothic novels, becomes convinced that General Tilney murdered his wife.
A heroine meddles in her friend’s love life with disastrous results. Which novel?
Emma. Emma Woodhouse’s matchmaking for Harriet Smith goes famously wrong.
A woman regrets a decision made in her youth when the man she once loved re-enters her life. Which novel?
Persuasion. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are separated for years after Lady Russell persuades Anne to break their engagement.
A theatrical performance causes scandal at a great estate. Which novel?
Mansfield Park. The performance of Lovers’ Vows, against Fanny Price’s wishes, exposes the Crawfords’ influence.
A mother and her daughters move to a small cottage after the father’s death. Which novel?
Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret Dashwood move with their mother to Barton Cottage.
What was the original title of the manuscript that became Pride and Prejudice?
First Impressions. Austen wrote it in 1796-97 and later revised it as Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813.
In which Hampshire village was Jane Austen born in December 1775?
Steventon. She was born at Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775, where her father was rector.
Who proposed by letter after eight years of silence?
Captain Wentworth, to Anne Elliot, in Persuasion.
Which estate is Mr Darcy’s family home?
Pemberley, in Derbyshire.
What is Mr Darcy’s annual income?
Ten thousand a year.
Who does Miss Taylor marry at the beginning of Emma?
Mr Weston. The marriage leaves Emma without her dearest companion at Hartfield.
Which book does Sir Walter Elliot consult obsessively?
The Baronetage, in Persuasion.
Which Gothic novel most excites Catherine Morland’s imagination?
The Mysteries of Udolpho, in Northanger Abbey.
One hundred and eighty more in the app.
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