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Persuasions
#12, 1990
Pages
142-143
The Quiz
at Washington
JANE
AUSTEN'S SISTERS
Compiled
by Marguerite
Clossman, Arlington, VA
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to see answers to the quizzes (not in the original publication of Persuasions
Number 12)
1. Who
said to her sister(s):
(a) "We must . . . pour into the bosom of each other the balm of sisterly
consolation."
(b) "I think it rather unnecessary for you to be
advising me."
(c) "Oh! Worse than
cold-hearted!"
(d) "They ought to feel what is due to
you as my sister."
(e) ". . . you have been very sly,
very reserved with me."
(f) "Your manners are polished, your
conversation rational, and your appearance singular."
(g) "You are like nobody else in the
world!"
2. Who
said of her sister:
(a) She has "tenderness of heart . . . I have it not."
(b) "My own sister as a wife . . . my standard of
perfection."
(c) "Such thick ankles."
(d) "I have had a thousand fears for
her."
(e) She "would stare when she heard of
it." (the wedding details)
(f) "I should hardly call her a lively
girl."
(g) "I am now going to murder my
sister."
3. Who
said of which sister(s):
(a) "I hardly know one from the other."
(b) "It shews an affection for her sister which is very
pleasing."
(c) "I once knew a lady . . .
who greatly resembled your sister."
(d) "from a superior education, (they)
are not to be altogether objected to."
(e) "If she is like her sisters, she
will only want to be listened to."
(f) "the sweetest girls in the
world."
4. Which
sisters are described as:
(a) "living to be fashionable, happy, and merry."
(b) "entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of
others"
(c) "Their vanity was in such
good order that they seemed to be quite free from it."
(d) "their dress was very smart, their
manners very civil."
(e) "had each had money, but their
marriages had made a material difference in their degree of consequence."
(f) "Their was vanity in all they
did."
(g) "Totally unlike . . . in every
respect."
(h) "they would have been nothing at
Brighton."
5.
Identify these sisters:
(a) _______ and _______ were married on the same day.
(b) _______ married the man refused by her
older sister . Who was _______
(c) _______ prepared her sister's (_______)
wedding dinner but it was ruined when the groom died.
(d) _______ went with her sister _______ on
her honeymoon.
(e) _______ and _______ planned for their
infant son and daughter to marry each other.
(f) _______ poisoned her sister's (_______)
rival and was hung for it.
(g) _______ named her daughter for her
sister. _______
(h) _______ always made tea for her sister.
_______
(i) _______ was the only one to cry when
her sister _______ left home.
(j) _______ wore a gown chosen by her
sister. _______
(k) _______ trimmed her sister's (_______)
hat with pink ribbons and a feather.
(l) _______ trimmed her own bonnet with a
cawl from her sister's (_______) bonnet.
(m) _______ could say the "Beggar's
Petition" better than her older sister. _______
(n) At 10 _______ was able to answer
questions that puzzled her older sister _______ at 17.
(o) _______ made a bequest to her sister
_______ that became a bone of contention with a third sister. _______ What was
it? _______
(p) _______ surprised her sister _______ by
accepting a gift. What was it? _______
(q) _______ drew her sister's (_______)
portrait from the back.
(r) _______ would have made a good likeness
of her sister _______ if she had sat longer.
(s) _______ hoped her sister's (_______)
husband would not be made a baronet.
(t) _______ "succeeded to her sister's
(_______) influence and perhaps became the most beloved of the two."
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