Dean Murphy on Pride and Prejudice

Question 1

mercantilism: … generates wealth

Answer 1

trade

Question 2

… trade: trade among three ports/regions

Answer 2

triangle

Question 3

men in novel are: 
...-rent .... to farmers
... 
... 
... and men in ... gain a ... 
no ... work

Answer 3

land owners; land; military; clergymen; clergymen; military; salary; manual

Question 4

when Austen makes generalizations, it’s more of a … comment directed toward a sect that doesn’t realize that they don’t …

Answer 4

sarcastic; constitute the entire universe

Question 5

primogeniture: legal concept that the eldest son …, namely, …

Answer 5

inherits property; land

Question 6

primogeniture is an … concept, by which females get …
other men that aren’t the eldest go into the …/… to maintain their status
system modeled on …
keeps land intact under one … and enables people to continue … land and … land from each other

Answer 6

English common law; nothing; clergy; military; monarchy; ownership; expanding; acquiring

Question 7

british economy was all about

Answer 7

land deals

Question 8

nationalist economic system: … and … coming from monopoly on … and …

Answer 8

tea; sugar; trade; colonization

Question 9

false … of land, people couldn’t really get land if they didn’t …
false scarcity caused by keeping land together

Answer 9

scarcity; inherit it