Q 01/05
A) Charlotte Bronte
B) Mary Shelley
C) Mary Ann Evans
D) Elizabeth Gaskell
Answer · why
She was also known as Mary Anne or Marian, and died as Mary Ann Cross.
Q 02/05
A) Warwickshire
B) Northamptonshire
C) Lincolnshire
D) Gloucestershire
Answer · why
She was born at South Farm on the Arbury Hall estate near Nuneaton, where her father managed the estate.
Q 03/05
A) Four
B) Seven
C) Ten
D) Twelve
Answer · why
They run from Adam Bede in 1859 to Daniel Deronda in 1876.
Q 04/05
A) Charles Bray
B) John Chapman
C) Herbert Spencer
D) George Henry Lewes
Answer · why
He stayed legally married to Agnes Jervis, and Eliot signed herself Mary Ann Evans Lewes.
Q 05/05
A) Kept a public house
B) Ran a ribbon factory
C) Managed a country estate
D) Served as a parish curate
Answer · why
Robert Evans ran the Arbury Hall estate, which gave his daughter access to the hall's library.
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