We’re all big fans of Jane Austen over here at Canterbury Classics. However, we wanted to discover the true Austenites in our midst with a little quiz. Can you match each opening line to the famous Jane Austen novel?
#1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Correct Answer: Pride and Prejudice
#2. “About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram…”
Correct Answer: Mansfield Park
#3. “No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
Correct Answer: Northanger Abbey
#4. “…handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”
Correct Answer: Emma
#5. “The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.”
Correct Answer: Sense and Sensibility
Results
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