Q 01/05

Emma is set in which fictional village?

A) Highbury

B) Meryton

C) Mansfield

D) Kellynch

Answer · why

A) Highbury

Highbury is just what Austen ordered: while writing Emma she told her niece Anna that 'three or four families in a country village is the very thing t...

Q 02/05

In which English county is Jane Austen's Emma set?

A) Derbyshire

B) Surrey

C) Hampshire

D) Kent

Answer · why

B) Surrey

Surrey puts Emma's village just sixteen miles from London, near enough for her to pack Harriet off to her sister's house in town when, late in the nov...

Q 03/05

What is the name of the Woodhouse family home?

A) Norland

B) Barton

C) Hartfield

D) Netherfield

Answer · why

C) Hartfield

Hartfield is where Emma stays even as a bride: she will not leave her nervous father, so her husband leaves his own estate and moves in for as long as...

Q 04/05

Which estate, with extensive grounds and farms, belongs to Emma's neighbour and only critic?

A) Pemberley

B) Northanger Abbey

C) Enscombe

D) Donwell Abbey

Answer · why

D) Donwell Abbey

Donwell Abbey must go to her little nephew Henry, Emma insists, so its owner must never marry. Then she marries him herself.

Q 05/05

In Emma, which house do the newly married couple of the opening chapter make their home?

A) Randalls

B) Rosings

C) Longbourn

D) Uppercross

Answer · why

A) Randalls

Randalls was the house its owner had long set his heart on. He would not settle down until he could afford it, so he made his money in business first,...