In which county was Jane Austin born ?

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1. In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that country, there is a small district of country, thily populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its soil, the general dilapidation of its farms and fences, the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants, and the prevalence of ague and fever. What does dilapidation mean ?

   A. Hunger or famine
   B. Decrease
   C. Derivation
   D. Neglect or decray

2. Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?

   A. Sense and Suspensibility
   B. Emma
   C. Pride and Prejudice
   D. Mansfield Park

3. Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill are characters from the novel____________?

   A. Cranford
   B. Hard Times
   C. Emma
   D. Great Expectation

4. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a__________________?

   A. Picaresque novel
   B. Gothic novel
   C. Domestic novel
   D. Historical novel

5. What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?

   A. It functions as a metaphor for the women’s rights movement.
   B. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
   C. It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.
   D. It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

6. How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?

   A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
   B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
   C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
   D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

7. How is “Jane Eyre” different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels ?

   A. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression.
   B. It is a Bildungsroman.
   C. It explains strange phenomena.
   D. The theme of imprisonment is prominent.

8. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?

   A. E Bronte
   B. J Austen
   C. Bronte
   D. None of these

9. Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?

   A. Restoration
   B. Victorian
   C. Middle English
   D. Regency

10. In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an example of Modernism ?

    A. Its fractured, collage effect.
    B. Its insistence on plot.
    C. Its focus on landscape.
    D. Its focus on modern city life.