1. Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. The novel was first published in December _______?
A:) 1812
B:) 1814
C:) 1815
D:) 1818
springline- Correct option: C:) 1815
2. As in Austen’s other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners, and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and ____?
A:) lay people
B:) lower class
C:) Religious
D:) social status
springline- Correct option: D:) social status
3. Emma Woodhouse's friend and former governess, Miss Taylor, has just married Mr. Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage and decides that she likes matchmaking. After returning home to Hartfield with her father, Emma forges ahead with her new interest against the advice of her sister's brother-in-law _________?
A:) Mr. Knightley
B:) Mr. Perry
C:) John Knightley
D:) Mr. Elton
springline- Correct option: A:) Mr. Knightley
4. Emma persuades Harriet to refuse a marriage proposal from Robert Martin, a respectable, educated, and well-spoken young farmer, though Harriet likes him. Who is a social climber and he mistakenly believes Emma is in love with him and proposes to her ?
A:) Philip Elton
B:) Mr. Weston
C:) John Knightley
D:) Mr. Elton
springline- Correct option: D:) Mr. Elton
5. Emma reveals she believed him attached to Harriet, he is outraged, considering Harriet socially inferior. After Emma rejects him, Mr. Elton goes to Bath and returns with a pretentious, nouveau-riche wife, as Mr. Knightley expected he would do. Who is heartbroken?
A:) Frank
B:) Jane
C:) Harriet
D:) Emma
springline- Correct option: C:) Harriet
6. Frank Churchill, Mr. Weston's son, arrives for a two-week visit and makes many friends. Frank was adopted by his wealthy and domineering aunt, and has had few opportunities to visit before. Who tells Emma that, while Frank is intelligent and engaging, he has a shallow character?
A:) Mr. Knightley
B:) Mr. Henry Woodhouse
C:) Mr. Weston
D:) Harriet Smith
springline- Correct option: A:) Mr. Knightley
7. Jane Fairfax also arrives to visit her aunt, Miss Bates, and grandmother, Mrs. Bates, for a few months, before starting a governess position due to her family's financial situation. She is the same age as Emma and has received an excellent education by her father's friend_______?
A:) Mrs. Goddard
B:) Mr. Perry
C:) Mr. Henry Woodhouse
D:) Colonel Campbell
springline- Correct option: D:) Colonel Campbell
8. Emma has remained somewhat aloof with her because she envies Jane's talent and is annoyed by everyone, including Mrs. Weston and Mr. Knightley, praising her. The patronizing, Who takes Jane under her wing and announces that she will find her the ideal governess post before it is wanted. Emma feels some sympathy for Jane's predicament ?
A:) Mrs. Elton
B:) Philip Elton
C:) Mrs. Weston
D:) Mrs. Beats
springline- Correct option: A:) Mrs. Elton
9. Emma decides that Jane and Mr. Dixon, Colonel Campbell's new son-in-law, are mutually attracted, and is the reason she arrived earlier than expected. She confides this to Frank, who met Jane and the Campbells at a vacation spot a year earlier; he apparently agrees with Emma. Suspicions are further fuelled when a piano, sent by an anonymous benefactor, arrives for ____?
A:) Frank Churchill
B:) Jane
C:) Harriet Smith
D:) Robert Martin
springline- Correct option: B:) Jane
10. Emma feels herself falling in love with Frank, but it does not last to his second visit. The Eltons treat Harriet poorly, culminating with Mr. Elton publicly snubbing Harriet at the ball given by the Westons in ______?
A:) March
B:) April
C:) May
D:) June
springline- Correct option: C:) May
11. Mr. Knightley says he notices a connection between Jane and Frank, Emma disagrees, as Frank appears to be courting her instead. Frank arrives late to a gathering at Donwell in June, while Jane departs early. Next day at Box Hill, a local scenic spot, Frank and Emma are bantering when Emma, in jest, thoughtlessly insults _______?
A:) Mrs. Bates
B:) Mrs. Weston
C:) Mr. Knightley
D:) Miss Bates
springline- Correct option: D:) Miss Bates
12. On the visit, Emma learns that Jane accepted a governess position from one of Mrs. Elton's friends. Jane becomes ill and refuses to see Emma or receive her gifts. Meanwhile, Frank has been visiting his aunt, who dies soon after his arrival. Now he and Jane reveal to the Westons that they have been secretly engaged since __________?
A:) Spring
B:) autumn
C:) winter
D:) summer
springline- Correct option: B:) autumn
13. Mr. Knightley returns to console Emma from Frank and Jane's engagement thinking her heartbroken. When she admits her foolishness, he proposes, and she accepts. Who accepts Robert Martin's second proposal, and they are the first couple to marry ?
A:) Frank
B:) Augusta Elton
C:) Harriet
D:) Mr. William Larkins
springline- Correct option: C:) Harriet
14. Jane and Emma reconcile, and Frank and Jane visit the Westons. Once the mourning period for Frank's aunt ends, they will marry. Before the end of November, Emma and Who are married with the prospect of ‘perfect happiness’ ?
A:) Robert Martin
B:) Jane Fairfax
C:) John Knightley
D:) Mr. Knightley
springline- Correct option: D:) Mr. Knightley
15. Emma the protagonist of the story, is a beautiful, high-spirited, intelligent, and 'slightly' spoiled young woman from the landed gentry. Her mother died when she was young. She has been mistress of the house (HartfielD:) since her older sister got married. Although intelligent, she lacks the discipline to practise or study anything in depth. When the story open, She was in the age of____?
A:) seventeen
B:) eighteen
C:) twenty
D:) twenty two
springline- Correct option: C:) twenty
16. Emma’s affection for and patience towards her valetudinarian father are also noteworthy. While she is in many ways mature, Emma makes some serious mistakes, mainly due to her lack of experience and her conviction that she is always right. Although she has vowed she will never marry, she delights in making matches for others. She has a brief flirtation with ______?
A:) John Knightley
B:) Frank Churchill
C:) Mr. Weston
D:) Philip Elton
springline- Correct option: B:) Frank Churchill
17. Mr. Knightley is a neighbour and close friend of Emma, aged 37 years (16 years older than EmmA:). He is her only critic. Mr. Knightley is the owner of the estate of Donwell Abbey, which includes extensive grounds and farms. He is the elder brother of Mr. John Knightley, the husband of Emma's elder sister_____?
A:) Isabella
B:) Mrs. Weston
C:) Mrs. Elton
D:) Mrs. Churchill
springline- Correct option: A:) Isabella
18. Mr. Knightley is furious with Emma for persuading Harriet to turn down Mr. Martin, a farmer on the Donwell estate; he warns Emma against pushing Harriet towards Mr. Elton, knowing that Mr. Elton seeks a bride with money. He is suspicious of Frank Churchill and his motives; he suspects that Frank has a secret understanding with _________?
A:) George Knightley
B:) Emma
C:) Jane Fairfax
D:) Harriet Smith
springline- Correct option: C:) Jane Fairfax
19. Who is a Mr. Weston's son by his first marriage, is an amiable young man, who, at age 23, is liked by almost everyone, though Mr. Knightley sees him as immature and selfish for failing to visit his father after his father's wedding ?
A:) Mr. Robert Martin
B:) Mr. Perry
C:) Harriet Smith
D:) Frank Churchill
springline- Correct option: D:) Frank Churchill
20. Jane Fairfax is an orphan whose only family consists of her aunt, Miss Bates, and her grandmother, Mrs. Bates. She is a beautiful, bright, and elegant woman, with the best of manners. She is the same age as Emma. She is extraordinarily well-educated and talented at singing and playing the ______?
A:) Piano
B:) flute
C:) guitar
D:) Cornet
springline- Correct option: A:) Piano
21. Harriet Smith, a young friend of Emma.She is a beautiful but unsophisticated girl. She has been a parlour boarder at a nearby school, where she met the sisters of Mr. Martin. Emma takes Harriet under her wing early on, and she becomes the subject of Emma's misguided matchmaking attempts. When the story open she is at the age of_______?
A:) twenty
B:) seventeen
C:) sixteen
D:) eighteen
springline- Correct option: B:) seventeen
22. Robert Martin is a well-to-do, 24-year-old farmer who, though not a gentleman, is a friendly, amiable and diligent young man, well esteemed by Mr. George Knightley. He becomes acquainted and subsequently smitten with Harriet during her two-month stay at Abbey Mill Farm, which was arranged at the invitation of his ______?
A:) brother
B:) friend
C:) niece
D:) sister
springline- Correct option: D:) sister
23. Robert Martin’s first marriage proposal, in a letter, is rejected by Harriet under Emma's direction and influence, (an incident which puts Mr. Knightley and Emma in a disagreement with one another). Emma had convinced herself that Harriet's class and breeding were above associating with the Martins, much less marrying one. His second marriage proposal is later accepted by a contented Harriet and approved by _____?
A:) Emma
B:) Elizabeth Martin
C:) Mrs. Bate
D:) Mrs. Churchill
springline- Correct option: A:) Emma
24. Philip Elton is a good-looking, initially well-mannered, and ambitious young vicar, 27 years old and unmarried when the story opens. Who was Emma's governess for sixteen years as Miss Anne Taylor and remains her closest friend and confidante after she married and she is a sensible woman who loves Emma ?
A:) Mrs. Goddard
B:) Mrs. Weston
C:) Mrs. Bates
D:) Mrs. Cole
springline- Correct option: B:) Mrs. Weston
25. Mr. Weston is a widower and a business man living in Highbury who marries Miss Taylor in his early 40s, after buying a house called Randalls. By his first marriage, he is father to Frank Weston Churchill, who was adopted and raised by his late wife's brother and his wife. Each year he sees his son in ______?
A:) London
B:) England
C:) America
D:) Italy
springline- Correct option: A:) London
26. Isabella Knightley is the elder sister of Emma, by seven years, and daughter of Henry. She is married to John Knightley. She lives in London with her husband and their five children .John Knightley is a George's younger brother, 31 years old . He is an attorney by profession. Like the others raised in the area, he is a friend of __________?
A:) Mr. Dixon
B:) Harriet Smith
C:) Frank Churchill
D:) Jane Fairfax
springline- Correct option: D:) Jane Fairfax
27. John Mullan has argued that Emma was a revolutionary novel which changed the shape of what is possible in fiction’ because ‘The novel bent narration through the distorting lens of its protagonist’s mind’. Who considered Austen to be a ‘Prose Shakespeare’?
A:) John Wiltshire
B:) Irvine
C:) Macauley
D:) James Brown
springline- Correct option: C:) Macauley
28. Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her works critique the novels of _____?
A:) mannerism
B:) Sensibility
C:) Socialism
D:) Morality
springline- Correct option: B:) Sensibility
29. The earliest English novelists, Richardson, Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett, were followed by the school of sentimentalists and romantics such as Walter Scott, Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, and Oliver Goldsmith, whose style and genre Austen rejected. Who noted Austen's ‘resistance to the trashy sensationalism of much of modern fiction—'the ephemeral productions which supply the regular demand of watering places and circulating libraries’ ?
A:) Walter Scott
B:) Henry Fielding
C:) Horace Walpole
D:) Oliver Twist
springline- Correct option: A:) Walter Scott
30. Who wrote that: ‘In Emma, we find something much closer to a genuinely communal voice, a point of view at work in the narrative that cannot be reduced to the subjectivity of any one character. This point of view appears both as something perceived by Emma, an external perspective on events and characters that the reader encounters as and when Emma recognises it; and as an independent discourse appearing in the text alongside the discourse of the narrator and characters’ ?
A:) Horace Walpole
B:) John Wiltshire
C:) Irvine
D:) James Brown
springline- Correct option: C:) Irvine