Books & authors
The “Austen, the Brontës and the Victorians” quiz — Books & authors. It has 25 questions in five categories: Austen's World, On the Wild Moors, Dickensian London, Country and Class, Shadows & Sensation. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which proud, wealthy gentleman overcomes his initial reservations to propose to Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice?
Which clever heroine fancies herself a matchmaker in Highbury, only to misread everyone's feelings, including her own?
Which novel contrasts the…
In the gameWhich meek, moral heroine…
In the gameWhich seaside resort gives…
In the gameWhich plain orphan survives Lowood School to become a governess and fall in love with the master of Thornfield Hall?
Which dark foundling is brought to Wuthering Heights and harbors an all-consuming passion for Catherine Earnshaw?
Which Yorkshire village was…
In the gameWhich Anne Brontë novel…
In the gameWhich brother of Charlotte…
In the gameWhich workhouse orphan shocks the beadle Mr. Bumble by daring to ask for a second bowl of gruel?
Which cold-hearted miser is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his deceased partner, Jacob Marley?
Which jilted recluse stops…
In the gameWhich endless Court of…
In the gameWhich London debtors' prison…
In the gameWhich cunning, ambitious anti-heroine climbs through British high society in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair?
Which George Eliot novel, subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life", follows the idealistic Dorothea Brooke?
Which Thomas Hardy heroine…
In the gameWhich Elizabeth Gaskell novel…
In the gameWhich prolific Victorian novelist…
In the gameWhich Robert Louis Stevenson novella tells of a London doctor whose chemical draught unleashes his sinister alter ego?
Which decadent young man stays youthful while an oil portrait hidden in his attic grows withered and corrupt?
Which pioneering Wilkie Collins…
In the gameWhich 1862 sensation novel…
In the gameWhich 1872 gothic novella…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.