Pride & Prejudice Reading Quiz #3
pages 106-120
Identify the speaker and the context of each of the following quotations and then reflect in detail. Be sure to analyze each, to identify and discuss any relevant literary terms, and to connect the significance to the rest of the novel where applicable.
1. “I would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest, there is no occasion for anything more. Lady Catherine will not think worse of you for being simply dressed. She likes to have the distinction of rank preserved.”
2. “Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I must have my share in the conversation, if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”
3. “My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault--because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers capable as any other woman's of superior execution.”