USUS UKUKIndiaIndia

Every Question Helps You Learn

Join Us
Streak
Leading Streak Today
Your Streak Today
Streak
Leading Streak Today
Your Streak Today
Pride and Prejudice - Extract 2
Elizabeth is engaged on her tour of Derbyshire.

Pride and Prejudice - Extract 2

This Literature quiz is called 'Pride and Prejudice - Extract 2' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at senior high school. Playing educational quizzes is one of the most efficienct ways to learn if you are in the 11th or 12th grade - aged 16 to 18.

It costs only $12.50 per month to play this quiz and over 3,500 others that help you with your school work. You can subscribe on the page at Join Us

This senior high school English Literature quiz is the second of two extract questions for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It takes place far into the second half of the novel, as Elizabeth is engaged on her tour of Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle, the Gardiners.

Go straight to Quiz

Darcy made no answer. He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation; his brow contracted, his air gloomy. Elizabeth soon observed, and instantly understood it. Her power was sinking; every thing must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace. She could neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress. It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her. Lydia - the humiliation, the misery, she was bringing on them all, soon swallowed up every private care; and covering her face with her handkerchief, Elizabeth was soon lost to every thing else; and, after a pause of several minutes, was only recalled to a sense of her situation by the voice of her companion, who in a manner, which though it spoke compassion, spoke likewise restraint, said, “I am afraid you have been long desiring my absence, nor have I any thing to plead in excuse of my stay, but real, though unavailing, concern. Would to heaven that any thing could be either said or done on my part, that might offer consolation to such distress. - But I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks. This unfortunate affair will, I fear, prevent my sister’s having the pleasure of seeing you at Pemberley to day.”

“Oh, yes. Be so kind as to apologize for us to Miss Darcy. Say that urgent business calls us home immediately. Conceal the unhappy truth as long as it is possible. - I know it cannot be long.”

He readily assured her of his secrecy - again expressed his sorrow for her distress, wished it a happier conclusion than there was at present reason to hope, and leaving his compliments for her relations, with only one serious, parting look, went away.

As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality as had marked their several meetings in Derbyshire; and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.

If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth’s change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise, if the regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defense, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method, in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill-success might perhaps authorize her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Penguin, 1972)
1 .
What is the immediate context for this passage?
Elizabeth has just arrived at Pemberley for a visit with her aunt and uncle
Elizabeth has just received a letter from Mr Darcy explaining the events which occurred between him and Mr Wickham in the past
Elizabeth has just received a letter from Jane informing her of Lydia's elopement
Lady Catherine de Bourgh has just been to visit Elizabeth
Being surprised by Mr Darcy's visit, Elizabeth's distress leads her to confide in him
2 .
What immediately follows this passage?
Elizabeth returns with her aunt and uncle to Longbourn
Mr Bennet finds Lydia in London
Mr Wickham and Lydia marry
Mr Darcy proposes to Elizabeth for a second time
Elizabeth realizes that Jane has been left alone at Longbourn to cope with worry and with their mother
3 .
In this extract, Mr Darcy is presented as displaying which of the following qualities?
Seriousness
Compassion
Self-control
All of the above
Elizabeth, though extremely distressed, is always alert to the unspoken meanings which lie behind the behavior of another. She does not always correctly understand others' motives, however
4 .
What does Elizabeth believe Mr Darcy to have decided by the time he leaves the room?
To travel abroad in his desperation at the turn of events
To restrain himself from future friendship and contact with her or any member of her family
To return home to Pemberley with the expectation of visiting her at home in Longbourn after a short while
To travel to London in a determined attempt to rectify the situation with Lydia
Such a decision would be entirely in line with his past behavior and with the opinions which he earlier expressed in his letter
5 .
Which of the following lines reveals the force of habitual politeness in the face of emotional turmoil?
“Oh, yes. Be so kind as to apologize for us to Miss Darcy"
"Conceal the unhappy truth as long as it is possible"
"Would to heaven that any thing could be either said or done on my part"
"The belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress"
Elizabeth remembers to apologize to Miss Darcy for not being able to meet her as arranged. Despite her heightened and despairing emotional state, the rules of politeness are so ingrained that Elizabeth easily falls back upon them during this time of catastrophe
6 .
Elizabeth and Darcy are both present and hyper-aware in this moment and also absent. Which of the following does NOT give this impression of simultaneous presence and absence?
"He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation"
"The humiliation, the misery, she was bringing on them all, soon swallowed up every private care"
"Covering her face with her handkerchief, Elizabeth was soon lost to every thing else"
"And, after a pause of several minutes, was only recalled to a sense of her situation by the voice of her companion"
Concrete details such as the handkerchief, Mr Darcy's voice, and the room in which he paces anchor their wandering thoughts and attention in the present moment
7 .
How does this passage present gratitude and esteem?
As good reasons for which to feel affectionately towards another person
As likely to be perceived as bad reasons for beginning to feel fond of someone
As good reasons in reality for feeling fond of someone, but also as unlikely to be perceived as such
As bad reasons for feeling affectionate towards another person, but likely to be perceived as the opposite
The last paragraph in this passage is a bit tricky! The narrator comments on the slow growth of affection for someone, based on the observance of virtue and character, as being unfashionably unlike the sudden attraction presumed to be more natural. Elizabeth, the narrator notes, felt such instant attraction for Mr Wickham. Their relationship could not be considered successful
8 .
How might the mood of this passage best be described?
Melancholic
Tense
Calm
Hostile
Both characters are highly agitated, which creates a tense mood in this scene
9 .
"But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her." What is meant by this sentence?
Elizabeth has no concern for her own fate
Elizabeth must abandon concern for her own fate in order to focus on her concern for Lydia
Elizabeth must have concern for herself, since no one else in her family will have concern for her
Elizabeth must set aside her own feelings and the thought of future disappointments in consideration of the impact which Lydia's choices will have on her entire family
She is scathing towards Lydia and seems to feel no sympathy for her sister in this initial moment, but realizes that concern for herself as an individual is subordinate to her concern for the impact Lydia's behavior will have for everyone involved
10 .
Elizabeth believes her acquaintanceship with Mr Darcy to be characterized as which of the following?
Contradictory
Perverse
Full of variety
All of the above
Despite her earlier realization that she should lay aside concern for herself, she cannot help dwelling on her own feelings as she anxiously awaits the return of her aunt and uncle and the possibility of assisting with the situation at home
Author:  Sheri Smith

© Copyright 2016-2024 - Education Quizzes
Work Innovate Ltd - Design | Development | Marketing