Q.1
What is the immediate context for this passage?
  • Elizabeth has just arrived at Pemberley for a visit with her aunt and uncle
  • Elizabeth has just received a letter from Mr Darcy explaining the events which occurred between him and Mr Wickham in the past
  • Elizabeth has just received a letter from Jane informing her of Lydia's elopement
  • Lady Catherine de Bourgh has just been to visit Elizabeth
Q.2
What immediately follows this passage?
  • Elizabeth returns with her aunt and uncle to Longbourn
  • Mr Bennet finds Lydia in London
  • Mr Wickham and Lydia marry
  • Mr Darcy proposes to Elizabeth for a second time
Q.3
In this extract, Mr Darcy is presented as displaying which of the following qualities?
  • Seriousness
  • Compassion
  • Self-control
  • All of the above
Q.4
What does Elizabeth believe Mr Darcy to have decided by the time he leaves the room?
  • To travel abroad in his desperation at the turn of events
  • To restrain himself from future friendship and contact with her or any member of her family
  • To return home to Pemberley with the expectation of visiting her at home in Longbourn after a short while
  • To travel to London in a determined attempt to rectify the situation with Lydia
Q.5
Which of the following lines reveals the force of habitual politeness in the face of emotional turmoil?
  • “Oh, yes. Be so kind as to apologize for us to Miss Darcy"
  • "Conceal the unhappy truth as long as it is possible"
  • "Would to heaven that any thing could be either said or done on my part"
  • "The belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress"
Q.6
Elizabeth and Darcy are both present and hyper-aware in this moment and also absent. Which of the following does NOT give this impression of simultaneous presence and absence?
  • "He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation"
  • "The humiliation, the misery, she was bringing on them all, soon swallowed up every private care"
  • "Covering her face with her handkerchief, Elizabeth was soon lost to every thing else"
  • "And, after a pause of several minutes, was only recalled to a sense of her situation by the voice of her companion"
Q.7
How does this passage present gratitude and esteem?
  • As good reasons for which to feel affectionately towards another person
  • As likely to be perceived as bad reasons for beginning to feel fond of someone
  • As good reasons in reality for feeling fond of someone, but also as unlikely to be perceived as such
  • As bad reasons for feeling affectionate towards another person, but likely to be perceived as the opposite
Q.8
How might the mood of this passage best be described?
  • Melancholic
  • Tense
  • Calm
  • Hostile
Q.9
"But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her." What is meant by this sentence?
  • Elizabeth has no concern for her own fate
  • Elizabeth must abandon concern for her own fate in order to focus on her concern for Lydia
  • Elizabeth must have concern for herself, since no one else in her family will have concern for her
  • Elizabeth must set aside her own feelings and the thought of future disappointments in consideration of the impact which Lydia's choices will have on her entire family
Q.10
Elizabeth believes her acquaintanceship with Mr Darcy to be characterized as which of the following?
  • Contradictory
  • Perverse
  • Full of variety
  • All of the above
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