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1. "Northanger Abbey" is usually interpreted as casting a satirical light upon what specific literary genre, extremely popular in Jane Austen's youth?
2. What is the name of the heroine - or some would say the anti-heroine - of "Northanger Abbey"?
3. Family friends of the heroine's family, Mr and Mrs Allen, take the seventeen-year-old girl with them on a protracted health trip to the fashionable spa town of Bath. Which one of these aspects of life in Bath does Jane Austen memorably describe in "Northanger Abbey"?
4. Who is Isabella Thorpe?
5. Which minor character is described in the following terms? "She was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them."
6. Which male character in "Northanger Abbey" is described by Jane Austen as a "rattle"?
7. What is the physical appearance of the young Henry Tilney, to whom our young heroine, after being introduced to him, at once feels attracted?
8. Which one of these statements is *not* true of our heroine's stay at the eponymous Northanger Abbey?
9. Our young heroine's four-week stay at Northanger Abbey is suddenly terminated by what shocking event?
10. What aspect of "Northanger Abbey" does Jane Austen herself satirise, apparently feeling some impatience and dissatisfaction with it, in the final pages of her novel?
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