Pride and Prejudice

Question 1

Who rents what in the beginning of the book?

Answer 1

Charles Bingley; Manor of Netherfield Park

Question 2

Who are the five daughters of the Bennets

Answer 2

Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia

Question 3

Which one of the daughters does Bingley dance with?

Answer 3

Jane

Question 4

Who does his friend Mr. Darcy refuse to dance with?

Answer 4

Elizabeth

Question 5

Why does Elizabeth go to the Netherfield manor?

Answer 5

Her sister Jane gets caught in a storm and catches a cold, and she wants to help her sister.

Question 6

What about Elizabeth’s arrival causes problems with who?

Answer 6

Elizabeth gets there in a splattered dress, and Miss Bingley is very snobbish; Darcy also pays attention to her, even though she tries to get it

Question 7

Who visits when Elizabeth and Jane come home and what does he do?

Answer 7

Mr. Collins, who tries to marry Elizabeth

Question 8

Who also shows interest in Elizabeth, who is he, and what about Darcy does he say?

Answer 8

Wickham, a soldier, and Darcy cheated him out of an inheritance

Question 9

The Bingleys and Darcy leave Netherfield when?

Answer 9

Winter

Question 10

Mr. Collins gets engaged to who and why?

Answer 10

Charlotte Lucas for the money

Question 11

What happens when Jane tries to visit Bingley

Answer 11

Mr Bingley doesn’t show up, Miss Bingley does and acts rude

Question 12

Who is Darcy’s aunt?

Answer 12

Lady Catherine

Question 13

What happens between Darcy and Elizabeth?

Answer 13

Darcy proposes, Elizabeth refuses, calling him arrogant and unpleasant, steering away Jane, and cheating away Wickham

Question 14

What is in Darcy’s letter?

Answer 14

He steered away Jane because he didn’t believe in her relationship, and Wickham lied

Question 15

What else did Wickham do?

Answer 15

Tried to elope with Georgina Darcy

Question 16

How does Elizabeth come to visit Darcy’s estate?

Answer 16

She goes on a trip with the Gardiners, relatives of the Bennets

Question 17

What happens with Lydia?

Answer 17

She elopes with Wickham

Question 18

How is the Lydia-Wickham situation solved?

Answer 18

Wickham agrees to marry Lydia for money, which is paid by Darcy

Question 19

Bingley eventually marries Jane?

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

What does Lady Catherine do and why?

Answer 20

She tries to coerce Elizabeth to refuse to marry Darcy, as she believes a Bennet isn’t rich enough

Question 21

Does Elizabeth relent to Lady Catherine

Answer 21

She says she won’t go against her own happiness

Question 22

What other obstacles stand in the way of Darcy and Elizabeth and how?

Answer 22

Miss Bingley, snobbishness and haughtiness, Wickham, lies, and Lady Catherine, coercion

Question 23

What does Darcy and Elizabeth’s relationship imply about Austen?

Answer 23

Austen view love as something not part of society, although she understands that sometimes love isn’t the answer. (Charlotte Lucas)

Question 24

Why was being a woman hard?

Answer 24

She had to comply to many social norms, or risk damage to her and her family’s reputation

Question 25

What is an extreme example of class in Pride and Prejudice?

Answer 25

Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine

Question 26

What does Austen feel about class and prejudice

Answer 26

It is hollow, unfeeling, and unproductive

Question 27

Does Austen sympathize with all class structure?

Answer 27

Not the lower classes

Question 28

What do journeys seem to function as?

Answer 28

Catalysts for something important to happen in the novel

Question 29

How does Pemberley symbolize Darcy?

Answer 29

The beauty of the manor, the stream, and the bridge that Elizabeth crosses