The Jane Austen Quiz - Friends and Family
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If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
In discussing happiness in marriage with a friend, whose opinion is this?
Lady Russell thinks that moving her friends Sir Walter Elliot and Elizabeth Elliot to Bath would be a very good idea because it would mean which of these things?
Lydia Bennet has two friends with the same first name. What is that first name?
Isabella Thorpe and Catherine Morland form a strong friendship, partially over their mutual love of what?
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this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in [her mother] which must generally have led to imprudence."
Sometimes mothers and daughters can be dear friends too. This is the case for the character this quote is describing. Who is the character?
Mr Darcy claimed that he separated his friend Mr Bingley from Jane Bennet for several reasons, which did he say was the most important reason?
Who was friends with Emma Woodhouse first of these four?
The Honourable John Yates is a friend of which of these characters?
“It is but a cottage,” she continued, “but I hope to see many of my friends in it. A room or two can easily be added; and if my friends find no difficulty in travelling so far to see me, I am sure I will find none in accommodating them.”
Which character makes this statement as they announce their imminent move to Devon?
Why do James Morland and John Thorpe meet one another and become friends?
Perhaps a reacquaintance with Austen's books is in order?
If the books of Jane Austen were people, you'd be the best of friends.
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