Q 01/05

Under which pen name did Emily Brontë publish Wuthering Heights in 1847?

A) Currer Bell

B) Acton Bell

C) Ambrose Bell

D) Ellis Bell

Answer · why

D) Ellis Bell

The three sisters kept their initials: Charlotte was Currer and Anne was Acton; only two copies of their joint book of poems had sold the year before.

Q 02/05

How many novels did Emily Brontë write?

A) Two

B) One

C) Three

D) Four

Answer · why

B) One

She died of tuberculosis in December 1848, aged 30, a year after it was published and before its reputation was made.

Q 03/05

The novel was published in one three-volume set together with which other book?

A) Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey

B) Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

C) Charlotte Brontë's The Professor

D) Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Answer · why

A) Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey

Emily's book filled the first two volumes and her sister's the third; the publisher Thomas Newby only hurried after Jane Eyre became a hit.

Q 04/05

Which publisher accepted the manuscript alongside Agnes Grey?

A) Smith, Elder & Co.

B) Aylott & Jones

C) Thomas Cautley Newby

D) John Murray

Answer · why

C) Thomas Cautley Newby

He had been slow to deal with the sisters and only saw the advantage of the family connection once Jane Eyre took off with a rival firm.

Q 05/05

In which year does the novel's framing story open, with a new tenant visiting his landlord?

A) 1811

B) 1821

C) 1801

D) 1831

Answer · why

C) 1801

The tenant is snowed in overnight, reads a dead woman's diary and dreams of her ghost begging at the window.