Entrances and Exits Trivia Quiz

Answer: Truth

"It is a truth universally acknowledged". We are dealing with truth in this novel. Truth is not always what our heroine Lizzy expects!

Answer: All of these

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich". Should we be envious... the book will tell us. The opening sentence is true but not the whole truth, for Emma has not yet achieved self-knowledge. The path to self knowledge has already been trodden by Elizabeth in "Pride and Prejudice".

Answer: The Baronetage

"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage." His life is his title, his personal vanity and his eldest daughter, who is made in his likeness. Anne Elliot was "only Anne". Anne does not regret that she was persuaded to break her engagement to Captain Wentworth before the action of the novel takes place. We regret it for her, but she is allowed a second chance...

Answer: captivate

Lady Bertram's life is one of indolence. Her captivation of Sir Thomas must surely have been a passive act. Her indolence nevertheless causes much of the action in this rather low-key novel. Fanny Price is rather a lacklustre heroine, perhaps because she always behaves so well! No self-discovery is needed here.

Answer: Sussex

This novel is about property and propriety. Every action is governed or at least moderated by ownership or correct behaviour, except for Marianne's. Marianne is that dangerous beast, the Romantic. No wonder then that she shied away from Colonel Brandon's flannel waistcoat.

Answer: Delaford Parsonage and Delaford Mansion-house

Barton is "Barton Cottage" where Elinor and Edward lived, before Delaford Parsonage was ready for them. Delaford is Colonel Brandon's estate where he and Marianne live in their flannel waistcoats. Norland is the home of Elinor and Marianne's brother, John Dashwood and his family.

Answer: both of these

"On that event they removed to Mansfield; and the Parsonage
there, which, under each of its two former owners, Fanny had
never been able to approach but with some painful sensation
of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart,
and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as everything else
within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park had long been."

Answer: "domestic virtues and national importance"

"She gloried in being a sailor's wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance."

Answer: Augusta Elton

She was not invited. She only hears of the wedding through her husband, who performed the ceremony. There was "very little white satin" and "very few lace veils".

Answer: "the means of uniting them"

"With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them."
In case the other possibilities sound familiar, I will admit that the penultimate chapter ends "and she looked forward with delight to the time when they should be removed from society so little pleasing to either, to all the comfort and elegance of their family party at Pemberley."