There is an exciting new quiz on The Jane Austen Centre website for you to try.
There are 10 questions and the theme is Love. Your results are posted straight back to you.
The Jane Austen Centre Quiz
Give it a go and let us know how you do. Which questions did you find particularly hard?
The picture provides help with one of the answers ...
Happy quizzing
Pic: BBC website
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Cast:
Anne Hathaway - Jane Austen
James McAvoy - Tom Lefroy
Julie Walters - Mrs. Austen
James Cromwell - Revd. George Austen (Jane's father)
Maggie Smith - Lady Gresham
Anna Maxwell Martin - Cassandra Austen
Joe Anderson - Henry Austen
Lucy Cohu - Eliza de Feullide
Laurence Fox - Mr. Wisley
Philip Culhane - George Austen (Jane's brother)
Ian Richardson – Judge Langlois
Leo Bill – John Warren
Jessica Ashworth – Lucy Lefroy
Eleanor Methven – Mrs. Lefroy
Michael James Ford – Mr. Lefroy
Sophie Vavasseur – Jane Lefroy
Helen McCrory – Ann Radcliffe
Julian Jarrold - Director
Graham Broadbent, Robert Bernstein, & Douglas Rae - Producer
Adrian Johnston - Soundtrack
Kevin Hood & Sarah Williams - Screenplay writers
Eigil Bryld - Cinematography
Jane Gibson - Choreography
Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh - Costume
Gail Stevens & Gillian Reynolds - Casting
Jon Spence,
McAvoy knew his portrait of Tom could only come alive with the right Jane, and he found Anne Hathaway almost supernaturally suited for the part. “I don’t think we could have chosen anyone better to play Jane Austen," he says.
Jane Austen’s greatest love story was her own
‘I’m yours, Jane, heart and soul!’
~ Tom Lefroy to Jane Austen, ‘Becoming Jane’
Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection – JA,
Nothing can be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another – JA,
To be so bent on marriage, to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation – is a sort of thing that shocks me.
The film Becoming Jane has given us an image of Jane Austen that liberates our imagination. I envy readers of my book who come to it with Anne Hathaway’s image of Jane in their mind’s eye. You will not have to struggle against the image Cassandra created to see the Jane Austen who was young and pretty, lively and in love. Anne Hathaway’s skilful portrayal of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane shows that art can have as much power to bring us closer to the truth as facts themselves can.
Jon Spence,
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7 comments:
Wow! What a lovely quiz! I just scored scored 10 out of 10. I've done their quizzes before but not for a long time. Thanks for posting this!
~Miss Laurie
Old-Fashioned Charm
Thank you very much for posting this quiz )))
my results are:
You scored 7 out of 10
I'm ashamed to say that I'm a bad Austenite. I only had 5 out of 10. Shall I resign? :-(
darn it only 7 of 10...
Icha, do not fret! And please do not resign!
/ Maria in sweden
Well, crap. I stink. only 5/10. Guess I need to go back and re-read, huh? Or....I could do the quiz over again now that I know the correct answers and make 10/10! Or would that be cheating?? :)
Lis
I say go back and do it again Lis so that the full marks make you feel good! I hope you had a lovely birthday by the way ... I am sorry, I saw a little late.
What fun! Perfect for Jane Austen fans. I am sure every true fan has seen all the movies as well.
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