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1. Choose a word to fill in the blank in this description of Elinor Dashwood:
"Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and ________ of judgment, which qualified her, though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother,and enabled her frequently to counteract, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence."
2. Choose a word to fill in the blank in this description of Marianne Dashwood:
"Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no __________. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great."
3. Elinor and Marianne's half-brother John Dashwood is neatly summed up in a few phrases. What are the blanked words in these quotations?
"Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest of the family" "He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather _____________ and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed":
Hint: Not a warm man!
4. Here Elinor meets Fanny Dashwood's brother Robert Ferrars: "Mr. Dashwood introduced him to her as Mr. Robert Ferrars. He addressed her with easy civility, and twisted his head into a bow which assured her as plainly as words could have done, that he was exactly the ________ she had heard him described to be". Fill in the blank.
Hint: He was on the 'strut'.
5. Robert Ferrars explains the differences between himself and his modest brother Edward Ferrars as being due to education. "Why they were different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme __________ which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education;" Choose a word to fill in the blank.
Hint: We're LEFT with no good impression of Robert himself.
6. The authorial voice defines Lucy Steele for us: Fill in the blank.
"Lucy was naturally clever; her remarks were often just and _______; and as a companion for half an hour Elinor frequently found her agreeable; but her powers had received no aid from education: she was ignorant and illiterate; and her deficiency of all mental improvement, her want of information in the most common particulars, could not be concealed from Miss Dashwood".
7. Anne Steele, Lucy's elder sister, shows herself up to be vulgar and silly; "Nay, my dear, I'm sure I don't pretend to say that there an't. I'm sure there's a vast many smart ______ in Exeter; but you know, how could I tell what smart ______ there might be about Norland; and I was only afraid the Miss Dashwoods might find it dull at Barton, if they had not so many as they used to have. But perhaps you young ladies may not care about the ______, and had as lief be without them as with them." Fill in the missing words (all the same).
8. Sir John Middleton is allowed to be a friendly and hospitable man, if limited, but his wife is not treated so well.
"Lady Middleton was not more than six or seven and twenty; her face was handsome, her figure tall and striking, and her address graceful. Her manners had all the elegance which her husband's wanted. But they would have been improved by some share of his frankness and warmth; and her visit was long enough to detract something from their first admiration, by shewing that, though perfectly well-bred, she was reserved, cold, and had nothing to say for herself beyond the most ________ inquiry or remark."
What is the missing word that sums up Lady Middleton?
9. We first see Colonel Brandon through Marianne's eyes. "Colonel Brandon alone, of all the party, heard her {Marianne} without being in raptures. He paid her only the compliment of attention;" "His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have ______ all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment. " Hint: He is 35, Marianne is 17.
10. Lady Middleton's mother Mrs Jennings is summed up:
"Mrs. Jennings was a widow with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to ______ all the rest of the world." Choose the word for the blank.
Hint: She was not a priest however!
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