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Contemporaries - Quotations - 4 Quiz

Number 4 in a series of Contemporaries quizzes (from an idea suggested by uglybird) this features quotations from Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Sir Walter Scott and William Thackeray taken from the "Penguin Dictionary of Quotations" by J.M and M.J. Cohen.

A multiple-choice quiz by mnbates. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
mnbates

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
234,134

Updated
Dec 22 22

# Qns
10

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Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who wrote "What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?" Hint

Jane Austen

William Thackeray

Sir Walter Scott

Fanny Burney

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who wrote "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"? Hint

Jane Austen

Fanny Burney

William Thackeray

Sir Walter Scott

3. Who wrote " "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language."? Hint

Jane Austen

William Thackeray

Fanny Burney

Sir Walter Scott

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote "'The whole of this unfortunate business', said Dr Lyster, 'has been the result of Pride and Prejudice'"? Hint

Jane Austen

Sir Walter Scott

William Thackeray

Fanny Burney

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who wrote "This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes." Hint

William Thackeray

Jane Austen

Sir Walter Scott

Fanny Burney

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who wrote "O woman! in our hours of ease/Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,/And variable as the shade/By the light quivering aspen made;/
When pain and anguish wring the brow,/A ministering angel thou!"? Hint

Sir Walter Scott

Jane Austen

William Thackeray

Fanny Burney

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who wrote "The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation."? Hint

William Thackeray

Sir Walter Scott

Fanny Burney

Jane Austen

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who wrote "Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked."? Hint

William Thackeray

Sir Walter Scott

Jane Austen

Fanny Burney

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who wrote "Fat, fair, and forty."? Hint

Jane Austen

Sir Walter Scott

Fanny Burney

William Thackeray

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who wrote "In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;/In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;/In halls, in gay attire is seen;/In hamlets, dances on the green./Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,/And men below and saints above;/For love is heaven, and heaven is love."? Hint

Sir Walter Scott

Fanny Burney

Jane Austen

William Thackeray

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who wrote "What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?"

Answer: William Thackeray

From 'The Four Georges' (1855) by W M Thackeray this is from "George the Third". I always think of this with the first lines of 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen.

2. Who wrote "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"?

Answer: Jane Austen

From 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) by Jane Austen. I always think of this with two quotations by William Thackeray one from 'The Four Georges' (about being "splendid and idle") one from 'Vanity Fair' (about a "woman with fair opportunities").

Answer: Jane Austen

From 'Northanger Abbey' (1818) by Jane Austen published posthumously. The books she refers to 'Cecilia', 'Camilla' and 'Belinda' were written by Fanny Burney in 1782 and 1796 respectively and 'Belinda' by Maria Edgeworth in 1801.

4. Who wrote "'The whole of this unfortunate business', said Dr Lyster, 'has been the result of Pride and Prejudice'"?

Answer: Fanny Burney

From 'Cecilia' (1782) by Fanny Burney (where Jane Austen got the title of her novel).

5. Who wrote "This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes."

Answer: William Thackeray

From 'Vanity Fair'(1848) should be considered with the first lines of 'Pride and Prejudice'(1813) by Jane Austen.

6. Who wrote "O woman! in our hours of ease/Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,/And variable as the shade/By the light quivering aspen made;/ When pain and anguish wring the brow,/A ministering angel thou!"?

Answer: Sir Walter Scott

This comes from the poem 'Marmion'(1808). Contemporary critics hated this poem - Francis Jeffrey called it "flat and tedious" - but the public loved the epic, the first two thousand copies sold rapidly (at a price of �1 10s and 6d, this when the average annual income was about �20).

7. Who wrote "The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation."?

Answer: Fanny Burney

From 'Evelina' (1778) the author was much admired by Jane Austen.

8. Who wrote "Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked."?

Answer: Fanny Burney

From "Early Letters and Journals of Fanny Burney"(1988) from the entry for 17 November 1768.

9. Who wrote "Fat, fair, and forty."?

Answer: Sir Walter Scott

From 'Saint Ronan's Well' (1824) one of the "Waverley" novels which include 'Ivanhoe' and 'Rob Roy'. He may have been thinking of the qoutation by Dryden from the play 'The Maiden Queen' (1667) " I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty".

Answer: Sir Walter Scott

From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) quoted memorably by the heavenly judge in the trial scene of 'A Matter of Life and Death' (1946)

Source: Author mnbates

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