Emma - Quotes

Question 1

Emma’s description (C1)

Answer 1

“handsome, clever and rich”

Question 2

Mr Woodhouse’s description (C1)

Answer 2

“Most affectionate , indulgent father”

Question 3

Emma’s flaws (C1)

Answer 3

“ a disposition to think a little too well of herself”

Question 4

Social Status of Hartfield (C1)

Answer 4

“The Woodhouses were the first in consequence. All looked up to them”

Question 5

Mr Woodhouse about Mrs Weston

Answer 5

“Poor Miss Taylor”

Question 6

Mr Woodhouse’s flaws (C1)

Answer 6

“Habits of gentle selfishness”

Question 7

Mr W on the topic of servants

Answer 7

“James is so obliged to you!”

Question 8

EW about herself (C1)

Answer 8

“fanciful, troublesome creature”

Question 9

Mr K’s pastime about EW (C1)

Answer 9

“was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them”

Question 10

the marriage of Miss Taylor (C1)

Answer 10

“to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision”

Question 11

EW on matchmaking (C1)

Answer 11

“It is the greatest amusement in the world!”

Question 12

Mr K on EW’s matchmaking (C1)

Answer 12

“you made a lucky guess; and that is all that can be said.”

Question 13

Mr W on marriage (C1)

Answer 13

“they are silly things, and break up one’s family circle grievously.”

Question 14

Mr K on matchmaking Mr E (C1)

Answer 14

” a man of six or seven-and-twenty can take care of himself.”

Question 15

On the topic of Mr Weston’s prior marriage (C2)

Answer 15

“they lived beyond their income”

Question 16

youth marriages (C2)

Answer 16

“not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth”

Question 17

Mr Weston’s opinion on FC (C2)

Answer 17

“a fine young man”

Question 18

the Wedding cake (C2)

Answer 18

“There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston’s wedding-cake in their hands”

Question 19

Mr W’s valetudinarian status (C2)

Answer 19

“What was unwholesome to him he regarded as unfit for any body”

Question 20

Mr W’s sociability (C3)

Answer 20

“he could command the visits of his own little circle, in a great measure, as he liked”

Question 21

opinion of Mrs Bates (C3)

Answer 21

“almost past every thing but tea and quadrille”

Question 22

opinion of Miss Bates (C3)

Answer 22

“her own universal good-will and contented temper”

Question 23

Mr W & Miss Bates’ relationship (C3)

Answer 23

“a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip”

Question 24

Mrs Goddard (C3)

Answer 24

Mistress of “a real, honest, old-fashioned boarding school”

Question 25

Mrs Goddard & Mr W's relationship (C3)

Answer 25

"having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse’s kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside"

Question 26

Harriet Smith (C3)

Answer 26

"the natural daughter of somebody"

Question 27

Emma on HS's friends (C3)

Answer 27

"The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her."

Question 28

Mr W on supper (C3)

Answer 28

"He loved to have the cloth laid, because it had been the fashion of his youth, but his conviction of suppers being very unwholesome made him rather sorry to see any thing put on it"

Question 29

HS opinion on EW (C3)

Answer 29

"actually shaken hands with her at last!"

Question 30

original reason for EW liking HS (C4)

Answer 30

"had very early foreseen how useful she might find her"

Question 31

comparison of Mrs W and HS (C4)

Answer 31

"For Mrs. Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet every thing."

Question 32

Mrs Martin on her son's marriage (C4)

Answer 32

"whenever he married, he would make a good husband"