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[gabbydwg]

Gacked from bagira:

You Win!!! :> You scored 20 % Janey-smarts

WELL DONE!!! Is she your favorite author too?? Even if she's not, you definitely know your stuff! Have your read the novellas? Of those, I recommend _Lady Susan_. :>

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Janey-smarts

Link: The Semi-difficult Jane Austen Test written by princessmargo78 on Ok Cupid

I have a few nitpicks: she spells Knightley and Georgiana wrong, and the Dashwood estate is not entailed; it's willed to the eldest son. Not the same thing. And I'm not sure about the double weddings thing. (I always thought Edward and Elinor got married some time before Brandon and Marianne; unless it's another double wedding she's talking about that I missed.) But otherwise, it's a fun test. :)

Comments

[angechrissy.livejournal.com]

Emma hits 2 weddings are about to happen at the end, but I won't consider them "double wedding". I can't imagine that Emma and Mr. Knightley getting married with Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill.

Unless that quiz's writer is thinking of Maria Rushworth (née Bertrem) eloped with Henry Crawford?

[karintheswede]

It's probably the Elinor/Edward wedding she means. This is a common misconception after the Ang Lee film, because Emma Thompson looked as if she was wearing a [bridal]veil on her hat.

[greenislove.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Pride and Prejudice ends with a double wedding. Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.

[greenislove.livejournal.com]

Yes, but this test is under the impression that two of the novels have an implied double wedding.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Is it? How can you tell? I didn't get that sense from the question at all.

Also, which is the "somewhat autobiographical novel"?

I have further objections to add to your list - Sir Walter Elliot was not obsessed with his title; he was obsessed with his (and everyone else's) appearance!

[greenislove.livejournal.com]

Because I originally selected "one" as the answer, and got 19%, but when I selected "two" as the answer, I got 20%. :P

The "somewhat autobiographical" novel was Persuasion.

[oz-deb.livejournal.com]

Another thing that bothers me is the % symbol. The number is the number of questions you got correct, not the percentage.

[greenislove.livejournal.com]

Yes, there is that, too.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Ah, right! Then I must have got one of the other questions wrong, because I only scored 18%, and I got the Persuasion question right. Wonder what I got wrong...