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malaise

(269,182 posts)
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 09:07 AM Jan 2013

Happy 200th Pride and Prejudice: quiz: Know your Bingleys from your Bennets?

Let the Jane Austen celebrations begin.


Pride and Prejudice quiz: Know your Bingleys from your Bennets?

As Jane Austen's novel turns 200 with its popularity greater than ever, can you answer these questions with universally acknowledged truths?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2013/jan/28/pride-and-prejudice-quiz-bingley-bennet

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Happy 200th Pride and Prejudice: quiz: Know your Bingleys from your Bennets? (Original Post) malaise Jan 2013 OP
du rec. nt xchrom Jan 2013 #1
i'm really going to have to read that book. barbtries Jan 2013 #2
I had to do Jane Eyre for GCE way back when malaise Jan 2013 #8
I am most heartily ashamed. grntuscarora Jan 2013 #3
I did lousy. butterflygirl Jan 2013 #4
That was fun! LisaLynne Jan 2013 #5
You scored 3 out of a possible 10 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #6
I got 4 - hardly any better malaise Jan 2013 #7

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
2. i'm really going to have to read that book.
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 09:24 AM
Jan 2013

as soon as i'm done with Jane Eyre, that's my next classic.

grntuscarora

(1,249 posts)
3. I am most heartily ashamed.
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 09:47 AM
Jan 2013

I flunked the quiz. And I've read the book multiple times and consider it one of my favorites.

(slinks to the corner and hangs head. )

 

butterflygirl

(44 posts)
4. I did lousy.
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 09:53 AM
Jan 2013

Only read the book once, but watch the movie all the time. Guess the movie doesn't really follow the book. Oh well.

LisaLynne

(14,554 posts)
5. That was fun!
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 10:01 AM
Jan 2013

P&P is one of my favorites, although I find as I get older, Persuasion moves up on the list.

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