Pride and Prejudice Book Quiz
Eight multiple-choice questions on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) — plot, characters and the moments everyone quotes. Two minutes, instant score, every answer explained below. For the full mixed-classics version, take the original book quiz — 15 questions across the whole canon.
All 8 questions and answers
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- How many Bennet daughters are there? — Five. Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia.
- What is the novel's famous opening line? — It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.. The sentence that sets the whole marriage-market comedy in motion.
- What estate does Mr Darcy own? — Pemberley. Pemberley in Derbyshire — which Elizabeth tours and famously likes.
- Why will the Bennet daughters not inherit Longbourn? — The estate is entailed to a male heir, Mr Collins. The entail on Mr Bennet's death is the plot's economic engine.
- Who is Mr Collins? — The entailed cousin, a pompous clergyman. He proposes to Elizabeth, is refused, and marries Charlotte Lucas within days.
- With whom does Lydia elope? — George Wickham. The militia officer with debts and a trail of women; Darcy quietly buys the marriage.
- How does Darcy's first proposal end? — Elizabeth refuses him angrily. 'You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.'
- Lady Catherine de Bourgh is Darcy's what? — Aunt. Her visit to bully Elizabeth into refusing Darcy backfires into confirming his hopes.
About Pride and Prejudice
Austen's 1813 masterpiece of marriage, money and misjudgment: Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy circle each other through balls, botched proposals and one elopement scandal, while five Bennet daughters face an estate entailed away from them. The novel runs about 122,000 words (roughly 432 pages in a standard paperback) — about 8 hours and 33 minutes of reading at an average pace. Before you commit, see the full breakdown in how long it takes to read Pride and Prejudice or calculate reading time for any other book.
Easy-moderate — long sentences, sharp comedy, no plot confusion. If you get 6 or more of the eight questions right, the book clearly stuck.
What this quiz covers
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sits in our romance & coming of age shelf, and the eight questions follow the book the way a reader experiences it: how the story opens, the turn in the middle, the characters who carry it, and the ending people still argue about. You will not be asked for page numbers or publication trivia — but three or four questions are built to separate people who read the book from people who read a summary. If a question stumps you, that gap is your reading list talking.
Fair warning for the ambitious: readers who clear this quiz often move straight to the reading-time breakdown for Pride and Prejudice to plan the reread, then test the rest of their shelf against the mixed classic literature quiz.
More book quizzes
Jane Eyre quiz, Little Women quiz, The Catcher in the Rye quiz, Emma quiz, 1984 quiz, Animal Farm quiz, Brave New World quiz — or browse every book quiz on the site. For scale, Pride and Prejudice is the 40th longest of the 133 classics timed here — shorter than Project Hail Mary but longer than The Kite Runner.
Doing the whole author? Our Jane Austen books in order guide lists every book with the best entry point.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are in the Pride and Prejudice quiz?
Eight multiple-choice questions covering Jane Austen's plot, characters and most famous moments. The quiz takes about two minutes and your score is instant.
Is the Pride and Prejudice book quiz free?
Yes — no signup, no email, nothing to install. Answer the eight questions and get your score immediately.
What score should I aim for?
8/8 means you know the book cold; 6+ is a solid score. Below 4, the book is calling you back for a reread.
Is the Pride and Prejudice quiz hard?
Easy-moderate — long sentences, sharp comedy, no plot confusion. The questions themselves stick to famous, load-bearing moments — the scenes and lines the book is remembered for — so a genuine read usually scores 6+.
How long is the Pride and Prejudice reading itself?
About 122,000 words — roughly 432 pages, or about 8 hours and 33 minutes at an average pace. The full pace breakdown is in how long it takes to read Pride and Prejudice. It runs 61 chapters, averaging 2,000 words each; see the book-count guide for its full structure.