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March 19, 2007
Jane Austen Quiz: The Answers
Last week we posted this:
Here's a little Pride and Prejudice quiz from So You Think You Know Jane Austen?
1. What first begins to attract Darcy to Elizabeth?
2. What bond forges an immediate friendship between the aristocratic Darcy and the mercantile Mr. Gardiner?
3. What are the implications of Darcy's remark "I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these"?
4. Why does Mr. Bennet tease and tantalize his wife so?
As promised, here are the answers:
1. Her fine dark eyes and her brilliant complexion (usually a primary attraction in Jane Austen heroine's).
2. Angling. There are trout in the stream that runs through the Pemberley grounds. Mr. Gardiner, presumably, fishes along the Thames. Darcy offers to supply him with some tackle.
3. During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, tourism to the Continent was curtailed. A gentleman turned to his books.
4. Because, in his way, he is a domestic tyrant. Teasing also seems the means by which he controls his irritation at her stupidity (and his own stupidity for having married her).
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at March 19, 2007 09:31 AM
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