The RizQuiz: Jane Eyre/Jane Austen Face-Off
Helen Sadler and Chandler Williams in rehearsal for the Hartford Stage production of “Jane Eyre” earlier this year.
The classics are alive and well on stage in Connecticut this season.
A stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was offered at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre with a run that ended in December. Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Austen, will run through Sunday, March 8 at West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park.
A new stage version of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, adapted by Elizabeth Williamson, associate artistic director of Hartford Stage, runs through Saturday, March 14.
But with all these period novels of class, romance, and strong-willed women, the characters, narratives, and settings begin to blur. So you think you know 19th-century English classics? Take this quiz, and test your knowledge of literary affairs of the heart. Give yourself one point for each correct answer.
1. The narrative thrust of Pride and Prejudice is about:
A. Matrimony
B. Revenge
C. Sacrifice
D. Reunions
E. Flower Arranging
2. Which novel was written first?
A. Jane Eyre
B. Pride and Prejudice
3. The original title of Pride and Prejudice was...
A. First Impressions
B. The Bennett Women
C. The Price of Goodness
D. Girls Just Want To Have Fun
E. There was no previous title.
4. The original title for Jane Eyre was...
A. Love Never Dies
B. A Love That Burns
C. Becoming Jane
D. Mistress of the House
E. There was no previous title.