| 1) Who is championing Pride and Prejudice in the BBC Big Read? |
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Meera Syal
Arabella Weir
Jo Brand
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| 2) What is Mr Darcy's first name? |
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Maurice
Fitzwilliam
Jane Austen doesn't say
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| 3) Who played Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC adaptation also starring Colin Firth as Mr Darcy? |
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Tara Fitzgerald
Julia Sawalha
Jennifer Ehle
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| 4) Who said 'Ten thousand a year! Oh, Lord! What will become of me! I shall go distracted!' |
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Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Charlotte Lucas
Mrs Bennet
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| 5) The Bennets have five daughters, what are their names? |
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Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Kitty and Lydia
Elizabeth, Jane, Miriam, Kate and Lily
Elizabeth, Jane, Martha, Katherine and Louise
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| 6) How is Bingley encouraged to ask Jane to marry him? |
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Elizabeth tells him that she is certain to say yes
Darcy tells Bingley that Jane has feelings for him
Mrs Bennet tells Bingley that Jane is totally in love with him
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| 7) Who said the following 'I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.' |
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Mr Collins
Mr Darcy
Wickham
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| 8) Who refuses to accept that his marriage proposal to Elizabeth has been spurned with a speech that begins 'You must give me leave to flatter myself that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course . . .' |
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Mr Darcy
Mr Collins
Mr Wickham
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| 9) From what was Jane Austen recovering when she wrote the original draft of Pride and Prejudice? |
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Pneumonia
Tuberculosis
A broken heart
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| 10) Which was Jane Austen's first published novel in 1811? |
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Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Emma
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Penguin Classics
Spinebreakers
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