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Jane Austen in popular culture - Exam
  • 1. Which of the following novels by Jane Austen was adapted into a film called 'Clueless'?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Emma
C) Sense and Sensibility
D) Mansfield Park
  • 2. What is the main reason some Austen scholars disapprove of Ang Lee's adaptation of 'Sense and Sensibility'?
A) It adheres too closely to the original text without creative interpretation.
B) The absence of a narrator glorifies romantic conventions that Austen deflates.
C) It focuses excessively on visuality rather than narrative.
D) It uses too much free indirect discourse.
  • 3. Which recurring image in Austen films symbolizes repression and a woman's lot in Regency England?
A) Women walking in the countryside.
B) Women gazing through a window to the outside world.
C) Women reading books.
D) Women attending social gatherings.
  • 4. What does Julianne Pidduck argue the image of women walking in the countryside symbolizes?
A) Social status.
B) Romantic longing.
C) Repression.
D) Freedom.
  • 5. Which film adaptation is noted for using a wandering camera to capture Anne Elliot's unexpressed feelings?
A) Douglas McGrath's adaptation of 'Emma'.
B) Andrew Davies' adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
C) Roger Mitchell's 1995 adaptation of 'Persuasion'.
D) Ang Lee's adaptation of 'Sense and Sensibility'.
  • 6. Which aspect of film adaptations often uses the physicality of actors to express emotions?
A) The emphasis on dialogue.
B) The use of free indirect discourse.
C) The focus on visual splendor.
D) The absence of a narrator.
  • 7. Which adaptation is praised for portraying the characters' experiences as bodies, offering a filmic version of women's experiences?
A) Patricia Rozema's 'Mansfield Park'.
B) Ang Lee's 'Sense and Sensibility'.
C) Andrew Davies' 'Pride and Prejudice'.
D) Douglas McGrath's 'Emma'.
  • 8. What is a recurring complaint about the 'harlequinization' of Austen in film?
A) It adds too much historical accuracy.
B) It ignores the original text entirely.
C) It cheapens and oversimplifies Austen for a mass audience.
D) It focuses too much on visual splendor.
  • 9. Which adaptation added scenes of Catherine Moreland imagining being kidnapped and semi-consensual sado-masochistic sex?
A) Andrew Davies' adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
B) Douglas McGrath's adaptation of 'Emma'.
C) Patricia Rozema's adaptation of 'Mansfield Park'.
D) Jon Jones' 2007 adaptation of 'Northanger Abbey'.
  • 10. Which Austen film adaptation is noted for its appeal to a wide female audience ranging from teenage girls to middle-aged women?
A) Pride and Prejudice (2005).
B) Emma (1996).
C) Becoming Jane.
D) Clueless.
  • 11. Which country's Bollywood regularly produces versions of Austen's books set in modern India?
A) Japan
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) Bangladesh
  • 12. What is the first Japanese critic to draw attention to Jane Austen?
A) Natsume Sōseki.
B) Yumiko Kurahashi
C) Nogami Toyoichirō
D) Lafcadio Hearn.
  • 13. Which Japanese novel by Yume no ukihashi is a resetting of an Austen novel in modern Japan?
A) Yume no ukihashi (The Bridge of Dreams).
B) Aisha.
C) Kandukondain Kandukondain.
D) Bride and Prejudice.
  • 14. Which country first translated Austen into Turkish as 'Sağduyu ve Duyarlık'?
A) Iran
B) Turkey
C) China
D) Korea
  • 15. Which Iranian writer recalled teaching Austen secretly in Iran during the 1990s?
A) Azar Nafisi.
B) Park Wansuh
C) Wei Yi
D) Zhu Hong
  • 16. Which country's adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice' as 'Omangwa Pyungyeon' aired between October 2014-January 2015?
A) South Korea.
B) Turkey
C) Iran
D) China
  • 17. Which American Janeite stated that Austen's novels feature female 'rebels' who defy societal norms?
A) Elaine Bander
B) Laurel Ann Nattress
C) Myretta Robens.
D) Nicole M. Wright
  • 18. Which Jane Austen novel was adapted into the Indian Tamil-language film 'Kandukondain Kandukondain'?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Mansfield Park
C) Emma
D) Sense and Sensibility.
  • 19. Which modern film adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice' features zombies?
A) Bridget Jones's Diary
B) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
C) Bride & Prejudice
D) Clueless
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