Q.1
"You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavor to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger, security for happiness"
  • For Elizabeth, "principle and integrity" should not be sacrificed for affectionate feelings towards a friend
  • For Elizabeth, principle and integrity should not be sacrificed for affectionate feelings towards a friend
  • Elizabeth believes that Charlotte's behavior shows that she is "insensible of danger"
  • Elizabeth believes that Charlotte's behavior shows an insensibility to danger
Q.2
"'You may depend upon it, Madam,' said Miss Bingley, with cold civility, 'that Miss Bennet shall receive every possible attention while she remains with us'"
  • The juxtaposition of "cold" and "civility" inform the reader that Miss Bingley is being hospitable out of duty rather than warm feeling for Jane
  • The juxtaposition of cold and civility inform the reader that Miss Bingley is being hospitable out of duty rather than warm feeling for Jane
  • Miss Bingley does not intend her cold civility to be understood as kindness
  • "Miss Bingley" does not intend her "cold civility" to be understood as kindness
Q.3
"She perfectly remembered every thing that had passed in conversation between Wickham and herself, in their first evening at Mr Philip's. Many of his expressions were still fresh in her memory. She was struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered that it had escaped her before. She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct"
  • Recollecting Mr Wickham's past behavior leads Elizabeth to question her own willingness to believe him
  • Recalling Mr Wickham's behavior during their first meeting, Elizabeth realizes the "impropriety" and "indelicacy" of his conversation
  • Reflecting on the "impropriety" of Mr Wickham's behavior leads Elizabeth to question her own willingness to trust him, as she "wondered how it had escaped her before"
  • All of the above
Q.4
"'That is the most unforgiving speech,' said Elizabeth, 'that I ever heard you utter. Good girl!'"
  • Elizabeth praises her sister for being unforgiving and a good girl
  • Elizabeth approves of Jane being "unforgiving" towards the Bingley sisters
  • Elizabeth congratulates her sister for "the most unforgiving speech that I ever heard you utter"
  • Elizabeth calls her sister "good girl" for the most unforgiving speech she ever heard her utter
Q.5
"One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty"
  • Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished ability to be witty now appears to her to be continually abusive
  • Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished ability to be "witty" now appears to her to be "continually abusive"
  • Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished ability to be "witty" now appears to her to be continually abusive
  • Elizabeth changes her view: her cherished "ability to be witty" now appears to her to be "continually abusive"
Q.6
"They knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it better that only of the household, and the one whom they could most trust, should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject"
  • The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their "servants" is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to hold her tongue
  • The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their "servants" is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to "hold her tongue"
  • The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their servants is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to hold her tongue
  • The Bennet family's fear of the gossip of their servants is evident in their worry that Mrs Bennet is unable to "hold her tongue"
Q.7
"Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!"
  • Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighborhood is a 'fine thing' for their daughters
  • Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighborhood is a 'fine thing for their daughters'
  • Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighborhood is a fine thing for their daughters
  • Mrs Bennet's assumptions are evident when she assures her husband that the arrival of Mr Bingley in the neighborhood is a 'fine thing for our girls'
Q.8
"Oh! - you mean Jane, I suppose - because he danced with her twice. To be sure that seem as if he admired her - indeed I rather believe he - I heard something about it - but I hardly know what - something about Mr Robinson"
  • Mrs Bennet boasts to Charlotte because Mr Bingley "danced with Jane twice"
  • Mrs Bennet boasts to Charlotte because Mr Bingley "danced with her twice"
  • Mrs Bennet's frequent hesitations when talking to Charlotte do not disguise the fact that she is boasting about Jane
  • "Mrs Bennet's" frequent hesitations when talking to "Charlotte" do not disguise the fact that she is boasting about "Jane"
Q.9
"But I can assure the young ladies that I come prepared to admire them. At present I will not say more, but perhaps when we are better acquainted -"
  • Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints about his intentions to marry one of the young ladies he has come prepared to admire
  • Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints about his intentions to marry one of the "young ladies he has come prepared to admire"
  • Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints in referring to his ready admiration for his cousins and in his promise to become "better acquainted"
  • Mr Collins drops heavy-handed hints in referring to his ready "admiration" for his cousins and in his promise to become "better acquainted"
Q.10
"I have no pleasure in talking to undutiful children. - Not that I have much pleasure indeed in talking to any body. People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer!"
  • Mrs Bennet claims she has no great inclination for talking, even as she continues to speak
  • Mrs Bennet claims "she has not much pleasure indeed in talking to any body", even as she continues to speak
  • The repetition of the word talking in Mrs Bennet's long speech becomes ironic because she insists she does not enjoy it, even as she continues speaking
  • The repetition of the word "talking" in Mrs Bennet's long speech becomes ironic because she insists she does not enjoy it, even as she continues speaking
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