Pride and Prejudice Study Guide Questions Ch. 1-9 1. What is ironic about the opening lines?

2. What is funny about the conversation between the Bennets?

3. What sort of place do they live? How is it described? 4. How are Jane and Elizabeth different? 5. What are some examples of how Austen mocks society?

6. What is the description of Bingly and Darcy?

7. How does Darcy offend Elizabeth?

8. How does Bingly show that he likes Jane? 9. How does Mrs. Bennet’s description of the ball annoy her husband?

10. In their conversation that night, how do Elizabeth and Jane disagree?

11. How are Bingly and Darcy different?

12. What was the difference in their impression of the evening?

13. Who are the Lucases? Charlotte

14. What do they all meet the next morning to do?

15. How does Charlotte differ in her opinion of Darcy than the others?

16. When the Bingly sisters visit the Bennets, what is Elizabeth’s impression of them still? 17. What is Charlotte’s opinion on how Jane should handle her crush on Bingly?

18. What are Charlotte’s views of marriage?

19. How is Darcy beginning to feel about Elizabeth, despite her obvious dislike for him?

20. Sir William Lucas has a ball…how does it go? 21. How does Elizabeth play hard to get, thus intriguing Darcy more?

22. When Miss Bingly talks to Darcy, how does he surprise her? 23. In the opening of Ch. 7, why are Lydia and Catherine excited?

24. What invitation does Jane get? 25. Why doesn’t Mrs. Bennet want Jane to take the carriage?

26. Does her plan work? 27. Why is Elizabeth’s decision to walk shocking to Bingly’s sisters? 28. How does Darcy feel about it? 29. At dinner that night, how does Elizabeth see through the sisters?

30. How is Mr. Hurst satirized? 31. When Elizabeth leaves, how do they “abuse her”?

32. What is ironic about their criticism of how her family makes money?

33. After dinner, what do people do? 34. What is their definition of an accomplished woman?

35. How does Miss Bingly insult her when she leaves?

36. Why does Darcy seem to like Liz?

37. Why does Caroline seem to like Darcy?

38. When the Bennets arrive the next day, how is Mrs. Bennet manipulative still?

39. How is she embarrassing?

40. How do the girls embarrass Elizabeth?

Ch. 10-18 1. How can you tell that Caroline Bingley likes Darcy (that evening in the parlor)?

2. What traits of Bingley are revealed through this conversation?

3. Why do you think Austen revealed these traits?

4. What does Liz notice about Darcy as she plays piano?

5. How do we know that Darcy actually likes her?

6. How does Caroline handle the jealousy?

7. How does Austen continue to mock Miss Bingley’s crush on Darcy?

8. What do Darcy and Elizabeth discuss as she and Caroline walk around the room?

9. What is Darcy worried about and how does he deal with it? 10. When Jane and Liz finally go home how do their parents receive them differently?

11. Who is coming to dinner? 12. What does the letter tell us about him?

13. Explain patronage 14. Describe Mr. Collins when they meet him.

15. What is Mr. Collins favorite subject?

16. Why does Mr. Bennet love his visit? 17. What does it reveal about Mr. Collins that he doesn’t read novels?

18. How does Lydia offend him? 19. What is Mr. Collins true reason for being there? 20. As the girls go into town the next day who do they meet? 21. What does Elizabeth notice about the meeting of Darcy and Wickham?

22. The girls visit Mrs. and Mrs. Phillips in Meryton…who is Elizabeth interested in clearly? 23. What story does Wickham tell her?

24. What is the connection of Darcy to Lady Catherine? 25. What is Jane’s perspective? 26. Bingleys through a ball…what does Elizabeth suspect of Mr. Collins?

27. Who is noticeably absent from the ball? 28. When Liz dances with Darcy, how is the conversation akward?

29. When Mr. Lucas interrupts them, what does he hint at? 30. What is Darcy’s reaction? 31. What advice does Caroline Bingley give to Liz? 32. How does Elizabeth’s pride get in the way here?

33. Note how her family embarrasses her that evening: a. b. c. d. e.

Mr. Collins introduces himself to Darcy Mary sings and continues on even when other girls want a chance Mother talks to Mrs. Lucas about Janes marriage (loudly) and near Darcy Mr. Collins follows her around…she can’t dance with anyone else How does the night end? Awkward…Mr.. Collins rambling on and on and they are the last to leave.

Ch. 19-27 (Ch.19-23, Volume II Ch. 1-4) 1. Describe Mr. Collin’s proposal.

2. What are his reasons?

3. What is so humorous about it?

4. Why does he not accept her answer?

5. Should Elizabeth have said no? Why or why not?

6. How do Mr. and Mrs. Bennet react? 7. What does Caroline’s letter say to Jane?

8. How does Elizabeth see the situation?

9. Why does Charlotte say yes to Mr. Collins? 10. What is Elizabeth’s reaction? 11. What does Charlotte want out of marriage? 12. How does Mrs. Bennet react when Sir Lucas brings the news? 13. What affect does Caroline’s news still apparently have on Jane?

14. What issues does Elizabeth have to bring up when talking with Jane?

15. How does Jane see the situation with Bingly from Caroline’s perspective? 16. What is her father’s perspective?

17. How are Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner different?

18. Why do they invite Jane to London with them? 19. Why does Elizabeth know that they won’t run into Darcy/Bingley?

20. What does Mrs. Gardiner know of Wickham?

21. What advice about Wickham does Mrs. Gardiner give Elizabeth?

22. Meanwhile in London, how is Caroline to Jane? 23. What becomes of Wickham’s crush on Elizabeth?

24. Where do we see love of nature? Quote a sentence from the book as evidence.

Ch. 28-36 (Volume II Ch.5-13) 1. How is Elizabeth’s journey to Hunsford (Rosings)?

2. Who comes to Charlotte’s house to personally invite them to dinner? How does everyone react except Elizabeth?

3. How is Elizabeth overall surprised observing Charlotte?

4. Who comes to Charlotte’s house to visit and how do they all react? 5. How is Mr. Collins himself concerning the invitation?

6. Describe Lady Catherin and her daughter.

7. What is the conversation like?

8. How does Charlotte deal with Mr. Collins?

9. How do the days pass?

10. When Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam come to visit, what does Elizabeth ask Darcy?

11. Who is paying special attention to Elizabeth? 12. Who notices? 13. What is the conversation like between Liz and Darcy?

14. What does Elizabeth tease Darcy about? 15. How does Darcy respond? 16. How does Lady Catherine react?

17. When Darcy randomly shows up at the door the next day, what do he and Liz talk about?

18. What does Charlotte say about the event? 19. What is Elizabeth blind to on her walks in the garden?

20. What does Elizabeth suspect after her conversation with Colonel Fitzwilliam? 21. What does Fitzwilliam reveal about Jane and Bingly (assumed)?

22. How does Elizabeth feel? 23. Think about the structure of the novel at his point…Elizabeth is at the height of her emotions and so is Darcy at this point. Think of Freytag's Triangle. What moment might this be? Why?

24. Explain the proposal.

25. How does she respond?

26. What is Darcy’s reaction? 27. What does Darcy’s letter contain?

28. What does the letter say about her family? 29. Trace Elizabeth’s changing state of mind in this chapter.

30. How does she look back on things now?

Ch. 37-42 (Volume II Ch.14-19) 1. How does this chapter mock Lady Catherine again?

2. What does Elizabeth ponder on the long way home?

3. What have the girls (Lydia and Kitty) been doing since they left?

4. Why does Elizabeth not want to go into town? 5. How is Lydia rude and obnoxious?

6. How does Jane react when Elizabeth tells her what has happened?

7. What do they debate doing? 8. What information does Liz leave out? 9. What does she still observe about Jane? 10. What reaction does everyone have to Mrs. Forster’s invitation to Lydia? 11. What is Austen’s tone towards the mother and father?

12. When Liz does see Wickham, what does she hint at?

13. In what way is Mr. Bennet's parenting of the girls criticized? 14. What is the only thing she has to look forward to? 15. How do plans change?

Ch. 43-46 (Volume III, Ch.1-4) 1. What is Elizabeth’s reaction to Pemberly? Write down at least one sentence that contains strong/revealing imagery.

2. What does Elizabeth learn from Darcy’s servants?

3. How does Elizabeth feel the moment she sees Darcy outside?

4. How does he feel? 5. How does this or previous moments in the novel prove the theme, "Men and women perpetually misunderstand each other"?

6. When he actually comes and finds them on the walk, how does she feel about introducing him to the Gardiners?

7. How does Darcy continually surprise her?

8. When she meets Georgianna, what surprises Liz about her?

9. What is continually surprising her about Darcy?

10. Why do her aunt and uncle not question Elizabeth?

11. What is the new emotion Elizabeth is experiencing?

12. When Elizabeth goes to Pemberly for the afternoon, how does Caroline treat her?

13. When Liz leaves, what do the sisters say? 14. What news does Jane’s letter contain?

15. How does Darcy handle this news?

16. How does Liz think this news will affect Darcy?

17. How has the dynamic between the 2 changed?

Ch. 47-50 (Volume III, Ch.5-8) 1. How does Mr. Gardiner handle the situation with Lydia?

2. How does her mother handle the news?

3. How do Kitty and Mary handle the situation?

4. Why is this situation so bad?

5. What is Lydia’s letter to Mrs. Forster like?

6. How does everyone in the neighborhood react to the news?

7. How do the 2 aunts contrast one another?

8. What info do Mr. Bennet and Mr. Gardiner discover? 9. What does Mr. Collin’s letter say?

10. What is Elizabeth's reaction, and how does it involve Darcy?

11. How does Mr. Bennet behave during the ordeal?

12. How has Mr. Bennet admitted his faults? 13. What does Mr. Gardiner’s letter say?

14. Why is Mr. Bennet not satisfied?

15. How does Mrs. Bennet react to the news?

16. What are Mr. Bennet's thoughts on his own finances?

17. What do Mr. and Mrs. Bennet argue about?

18. Why does Elizabeth now really regret telling Darcy? 19. How is this ironic?

20. What is Elizabeth slowly realizing? 21. What are Elizabeth’s thoughts on Lydia’s happiness in marriage?

22. What news of Wickham does Mr. Gardiner send?

23. How do the family members react?

Ch. 51-55 (Volume III Ch. 9-13) 1. When Lydia and Wickham return, how is their demeanor shocking?

2. What does Elizabeth observe about them?

3. What information does Lydia reveal to Elizabeth? 4. What information does Mrs. Gardiner’s letter to Elizabeth contain?

5. What is Elizabeth’s reaction to all of this news? 6. Why is the hope of Darcy so quickly forgotten? 7. How is Elizabeth’s character changed even more? 8. Also, how does she interact with Wickham that shows she’s grown up and matured? 9. What is Lydia’s departure like?

10. What news of Netherfield do they receive? 11. How does Jane react? 12. How does Darcy’s coming to the house affect Liz?

13. What does she observe from Jane and Bingley? 14. At dinner, how does Bingley act toward Jane? 15. How does Elizabeth suffer?

16. What does Jane lie about? 17. Whenever Bingley comes to visit, what does Mrs. Bennet conspire to do?

18. How does Elizabeth feel about the marriage proposal of Mr. Bingley? 19. Why is Liz glad that Bingley didn’t tell Jane the real reason he left Netherfield?

Ch. 56-61 (Volume III, Ch.14-19) (end of book) 1. What is the purpose of Lady Catherine deBourgh’s visit?

2. How does Elizabeth hold her ground? 3. What are Lady Catherine’s arguments against the marriage?

4. What is Elizabeth worried about after her departure?

5. What does Mr. Collins’ letter say?

6. Why does her father think it is so funny? 7. When Elizabeth is finally alone with Darcy, what do they discuss? 8. What does Darcy say of Lady Catherine’s visit?

9. What is Elizabeth's ironic comment about Lady Catherine?

10. Darcy regrets and apologizes for his behavior. What does he say Elizabeth has taught him? 11. Now that Elizabeth and Darcy have confessed their feelings, what does she worry about?

12. What does Elizabeth confess to Jane? 13. What is so humorous about Mrs. Bennet’s comments on the two of them?

14. How does Mr. Bennet show his love and concern for Elizabeth?

15. How is Mrs. Bennet changed by the news?

16. In ch. 60, why does Darcy say he fell in love with Elizabeth?

17. How does the novel conclude?

18. You can make an obvious connection between the title and the two main characters: at first, Lizzy seems prejudiced to Darcy, and Darcy acts too proudly to Lizzy. How might the opposite also be true?