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Pride and Prejudice - Themes
This GCSE English Literature quiz will challenge you on themes in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Any work of literature will contain multiple themes. These themes might range from the subtle to the obvious. Individual themes will not be presented in isolation, but will instead interact with and comment upon other key themes in the text. The essential components of fiction, such as setting, character, plot and dialogue, are the means through which an author develops the themes of the text. Explore the related ideas and concepts in the text, tracing the development of its different themes. Do you notice having developed or changed any opinions over the course of the text? Compare your thoughts at the end of the text with those you held as you began reading. Have your views on any key issues changed? If so, could you explain why?
1 .
Which of the following is considered a serious impediment to the possibility of marriage between Jane and Mr Bingley?
The two characters have incompatible temperaments
There is distinction in class between the two characters
There is a great difference between the intellectual capacity of each character
There is a large difference in their ages
Mrs Bennet's behaviour and the family's lack of money compound the fundamental problem presented by differences in class
2 .
Which of the following does NOT illustrate the difference between outward appearance and inner reality?
Mr Darcy does not believe Jane to have strong feelings for Mr Bingley
Mr Wickham wins the hearts of Meryton and presents himself as having always wished to be a clergyman
Mrs Bennet retreats to her room to be waited upon while she worries about Lydia
In conversation with Elizabeth and the Gardiners, Mr Darcy's housekeeper paints a glowing picture of her employer
The novel is full of misleading appearances and misjudgements based on incomplete information
3 .
Of the following characters, who displays little pride?
Charlotte Lucas
Elizabeth Bennet
Mr Darcy
Miss Bingley
Charlotte is eminently sensible and shows little sign of pride. Her humility and practicality see her marry Mr Collins after the briefest acquaintance
4 .
Elizabeth worries that her prospects in life, as well as Jane's, will be tainted by the behaviour of their sister Lydia. Mr Bennet tells her that she and Jane may rely on their own good reputations despite the silliness of their sisters. To which of the following themes is this conversation most directly related?
Economic inequality and gender
Private communication
Old and new wealth
Reputation and the relationship between the individual and the family
Jane and Elizabeth are eventually judged upon their own merits, but only after great difficulty. Mr Bennet's optimism does not disguise the haphazard approach he takes to parenting
5 .
Which of the following is NOT communicated by letter?
Mr Darcy's involvement in the finding of Mr Wickham and Lydia and in their subsequent marriage
Charlotte's intended marriage to Mr Collins
The elopement of Lydia and Mr Wickham
The true story of Mr Wickham and his attempted seduction of Miss Darcy
Many of the most intimate moments in the novel occur in the privacy of communication by letter; this is also the safest way of communicating the most sensitive and potentially embarrassing information
6 .
In which of the following is money NOT an issue?
Mr and Mrs Bennet's agreement to allow Lydia to go to Brighton
Deciding whom to marry
Choosing with whom to socialise
Deciding how to speak to another
Money's influence is everywhere in the novel, most insidiously in the flattery and obeisance offered to Lady Catherine. Lydia's stay in Brighton results in her elopement, which once again returns the novel to the issue of money, since her family has no money with which to induce Mr Wickham to marry her
7 .
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Which of the themes of Pride and Prejudice is prominently highlighted in the novel's first sentence?
Money
Marriage
Society
All of the above
The first sentence elegantly, and humourously, sets out several of the novel's prominent concerns: marriage, especially marriage as financial security, the pursuit of wealth and the consensus of society
8 .
Which one of the following does NOT prevent Elizabeth from perceiving Mr Darcy's virtuous character for a while?
Her own prejudice
Mr Wickham's deceit
Mrs Bennet's hatred of Mr Darcy
Mr Darcy's reluctance to defend his character with detailed explanation
Mr Darcy does not wish to embarrass his sister, which would be the result if he defended himself against the charges of Mr Wickham. The world of Pride and Prejudice is one where ill-advised and impetuous behaviours can have lasting consequences, even if only in society's gossip
9 .
The problem of the entailed Longbourn estate is related to which of the following themes?
Prejudice
Pride
Economic inequality and gender
The distinction between inner qualities and outward appearance
The Bennet sisters have very little economic freedom to determine their lives. Interestingly, Mary seemingly continues in her hardly crowd-pleasing ways; Lydia concocts a near-disastrous elopement and Elizabeth puts her own pride and individual happiness before seeking economic security through marriage. Although the lack of economic freedom threatens the sisters, it does not entirely determine their choices
10 .
How does Elizabeth Bennet defy societal expectations?
She does not marry the first man who asks her, despite the promise of future poverty as a single woman
She refuses to please people in deference to their greater wealth
She takes long, wet walks without any care for maintaining an neat and ladylike appearance
All of the above
Although she is assigned a conventional ending with a happy marriage to a wealthy man, Elizabeth is presented as one who refuses to conform to the demands of society in many important ways
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