ENG 206 Literature

ENGLISH 206: ENGLISH LITERATURE II: NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT

Jane Austen was an English novelist born on December 16, 1775, the first year of the American Revolution on the other side of the world.

The genre of her novels was romance and her main characters were of the landed gentry, what we call the upper middle class in American society. American upper class can be compared with British aristocracy, those who have inherited a lot of money that they don't have to go to work at all. In contrast, the upper middle class need to go to work to maintain being in the upper middle class of society.

Among Jane Austen's novels that I have read are the following, in chronological order:
1. Pride and Prejudice. This is the story of a young woman pining to marry a man with the help of her mother.
2. Persuasion. This is the story of a woman pining to marry a man that her relatives prevented her to marry when she was a teenager.
3. Sense and Sensibility. I am working on reading this novel because there are at least 3 characters with the same first name as mine.

Here's a practice exam on ENG 206: ENGLISH LITERATURE 2.

Question 1. What is the name of the primary character in "Pride and Prejudice"?
Question 2. What is the name of the primary character in "Persuasion"?
Question 3. What is the name of the primary male character in "Pride and Prejudice"?
Question 4-5. What is the name of the primary male character in "Persuasion" and what was his rank?
Question 6-10. In your own words, rephrase the first sentence of the novel "Pride and Prejudice"?

It is a truth universally acknowledged.

John Sindayen