How Much Do You Know About "Vanity Fair"? Quiz

Answer: His diddle diddle darling

Rebecca was all expectation that Joseph would propose to her on this night out when she, Amelia and George Osborne dined at Vauxhall. Joseph actually intended to do so, but had so far been too timid. However, the famous Vauxhall rack punch had an alarming effect on him.

He became first amorous, then maudlin, then violent. The next day not only did poor Joseph feel terribly ill, but his future brother-in-law, George Osborne, advised him against marrying Rebecca.

Answer: He is ashamed because Dobbin is looked down on by the other boys

Before the fight Dobbin is looked down on by the rest of the school because it is discovered that his father is in trade as a grocer. It is George Osborne who makes this discovery and initiates the ridicule against him. Therefore when Dobbin, with typical good nature, rescues him from the much bigger boy, Cuff, who is bullying him, George is ashamed rather than grateful.

However, his feelings change during the course of the fight, as Dobbin succeeds in 'licking' Cuffs. Dobbin's status in the school is raised,; it becomes bad form to sneer at his humble origins, and Dobbin and George are lifelong friends.

Answer: She writes him so many love letters

George is embarrassed by the love letters that are constantly following him about. Amelia spends all her time thinking of him and writing extremely long letters to him. His own letters to Amelia are short and soldierlike.

Answer: By doing imitations of people

Becky makes a conquest of the rich Miss Crawley by doing malicious imitations of everyone around them, especially Briggs, Miss Crawley's devoted maid. Among many other talents, Becky has a wicked gift of imitation. Later on in the book she acts out scenes for the amusement of Lord Steyne and his friends.

Answer: Mrs Bute Crawley is Sir Pitt Crawley's second wife

Sir Pitt Crawley has two sons, Pitt and Rawdon, whose mother was on of the aristocratic Binkies. He then married again to Rose Dawson and had two daughters, who are therefore Rawdon's half-sisters. It is as governess to these girls that Rebecca is introduced into the family at Queen's Crawley. Sir Pitt's brother is the Reverend Bute Crawley, and his half-sister is the rich Miss Crawley, whose money everyone is anxious to inherit.

Therefore Rawdon's uncle is a rector. Rawdon and Becky's son, also called Rawdon, is the nephew of Pitt Crawley, who inherits the title of baronet on his father's death.

Answer: Instructs his valet to shave off his moustache

Joseph, at first is a hanger-on of the British army, and enjoys the military talk and atmosphere. However when his valet brings him the news that the army has been defeated, he is terrified he will be taken for an officer and therefore instructs his valet in a panic, and in very bad French: "Coupy, vite!', at the same time gesturing at his face.

The valet at first believes his master wishes him to cut his throat. In contrast, Amelia and Mrs O'Dowd, whose husbands have just marched away, show no fear for their own skins.

Answer: Glorvina

After several seasons in her native Ireland in which she has failed to get married, Glorvina comes out to Madras to try her luck with the officers stationed there. Her sister, Peggy O'Dowd, is loud in her praise of Glorvina's charms.

Answer: He claims: "You never kiss me at home, Mamma."

Poor little Rawdon is not used to such tokens of affection from his mother. When they are at home she rarely takes any notice of him, and he habitually eats in the kitchen with the servants, who are kinder to him than his mamma. But one of Becky's motives in going to Queen's Crawley is to make a good impression on Sir Pitt and his family in order to get what she can from them.

Therefore she pretends to be devoted to her little boy.

Answer: He arranges to have him arrested for debt

Rawdon is walking home in the early hours after a party when he is arrested by bailiffs. He only needs to pay a debt of a hundred and seventy pounds to be released. He sends a note to Becky immediately, instructing her get the money by selling or pawning her jewellery. Becky sends an answer claiming she is ill in bed and cannot raise the money although she has done her best. Rawdon then sends to his brother for assistance, and is rescued by his sister-in-law.

He returns home to discover Becky alone in the house with Lord Steyne, covered in jewels he has given her.

Answer: Jos Sedley has settled down to married life

Little Rawdon is adopted by his uncle, Sir Pitt Crawley, and his kind aunt, Lady Jane Sheepshanks, who has always been more of a mother to him than his real mother. William Dobbin has been hopelessly in love with Amelia for more than fifteen years, and, thanks ultimately to Rebecca, he marries her. Rebecca, almost for the first time in the book, performs a disinterested act by showing Amelia the note George Osborne wrote her the night before he marched into battle. Amelia is at last forced to face the fact that she has been worshipping a false idol all the years of her widowhood, thinking George was perfect in every way and that she should never seek to replace him. Now the idol is shattered she feels free to marry William Dobbin.

Jos Sedley never marries, but his last years are made a misery by Becky who, after she has done this one good deed, reverts to her old ways and tries to get her hands on Joseph's fortune.