Pride & Prejudice Quiz #2
pages 72 - 106
1. Reflect on the context and significance of the following quotation: “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
2. Reflect on the context and significance of the following quotation: “To be sure [he] was neither sensible or agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. But still he would be her husband—without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune . . .”
3. Reflect on the context and significance of the following quotation: “He knows of my being in town, I am certain, from something she said herself; and yet it should seem by her manner of talking, as if she wanted to persuade herself that he really is partial to Miss Darcy. I cannot understand it. If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be almost tempted to say, that there is a strong appearance of duplicity in all of this.”