The Ladies of Pride and Prejudice Quiz

Answer: Hurst

"At that moment they were met from another walk by Mrs. Hurst and Elizabeth herself. 'I did not know that you intended to walk,' said Miss Bingley, in some confusion, lest they had been overheard. 'You used us abominably ill,' answered Mrs. Hurst, 'running away without telling us that you were coming out.' Then, taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk by herself.

The path just admitted three. Mr. Darcy felt their rudeness and immediately said, -- 'This walk is not wide enough for our party. We had better go into the avenue.'"

Answer: Jane

"Miss Bennet's lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice..."

Answer: Anne DeBourgh

"'...Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now, what have you to say?'
'Only this: that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me.' Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment, and then replied -- 'The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind. From their infancy they have been intended for each other.'"

Answer: Mrs. Phillips

(After she hears the news of her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Bennet cries:) "'I will go to Meryton,' said she, 'as soon as I am dressed, and tell the good, good news to my sister Phillips. And as I come back, I can call on Lady Lucas and Mrs. Long. Kitty, run down and order the carriage. An airing would do me a great deal of good, I am sure. Girls, can I do anything for you in Meryton? Oh! here comes Hill! My dear Hill, have you heard the good news? Miss Lydia is going to be married; and you shall all have a bowl of punch to make merry at her wedding.'"

Answer: Charlotte Lucas

"In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the house he earnestly entreated her to name the day that was to make him the happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must be waved for the present, the lady felt no inclination to trifle with his happiness.

The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained."

Answer: Caroline Bingley

Only having eyes for Fitzwilliam Darcy, Caroline was immune to Wickham's seductive wiles. Lydia ended up married to him; Georgiana was almost engaged to him, and even Lizzy herself, bent on seeing an imagined evil in Darcy, was willing to believe Wickham's lies.

Answer: Charlotte Lucas

Charlotte Lucas is not known for her romantic eccentricities, it seems.

Answer: Georgiana Darcy

Caroline Bingley, deperate to seal a marriage between her brother and Darcy's sister, hoped to, in so doing, increase her own chances of marrying Mr. Darcy.

Answer: Playing the pianoforte

"'All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?'

'Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses. I scarcely know any one who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.'

'Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,' said Darcy, 'has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.'"

Answer: Lydia Bennet and George Wickham

Charlotte was the first to marry, relatively early in the novel. Much later, Darcy expedited the Wickham-Bennet match; Jane Austen leads us to believe, in the final chapter of the novel, that Jane and Lizzy Bennet marry their husbands in a double wedding. :-)