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Jane Austen in popular culture - Exam
Jane Austen in popular culture
  • 1. Which of the following novels by Jane Austen was adapted into a film called 'Clueless'?
A) Emma
B) Sense and Sensibility
C) Mansfield Park
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 2. What is the main reason some Austen scholars disapprove of Ang Lee's adaptation of 'Sense and Sensibility'?
A) It focuses excessively on visuality rather than narrative.
B) It adheres too closely to the original text without creative interpretation.
C) It uses too much free indirect discourse.
D) The absence of a narrator glorifies romantic conventions that Austen deflates.
  • 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 attending social gatherings.
C) Women gazing through a window to the outside world.
D) Women reading books.
  • 4. What does Julianne Pidduck argue the image of women walking in the countryside symbolizes?
A) Repression.
B) Social status.
C) Freedom.
D) Romantic longing.
  • 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 focus on visual splendor.
B) The absence of a narrator.
C) The emphasis on dialogue.
D) The use of free indirect discourse.
  • 7. Which adaptation is praised for portraying the characters' experiences as bodies, offering a filmic version of women's experiences?
A) Ang Lee's 'Sense and Sensibility'.
B) Douglas McGrath's 'Emma'.
C) Andrew Davies' 'Pride and Prejudice'.
D) Patricia Rozema's 'Mansfield Park'.
  • 8. What is a recurring complaint about the 'harlequinization' of Austen in film?
A) It cheapens and oversimplifies Austen for a mass audience.
B) It adds too much historical accuracy.
C) It focuses too much on visual splendor.
D) It ignores the original text entirely.
  • 9. Which adaptation added scenes of Catherine Moreland imagining being kidnapped and semi-consensual sado-masochistic sex?
A) Jon Jones' 2007 adaptation of 'Northanger Abbey'.
B) Patricia Rozema's adaptation of 'Mansfield Park'.
C) Douglas McGrath's adaptation of 'Emma'.
D) Andrew Davies' adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
  • 10. Which Austen film adaptation is noted for its appeal to a wide female audience ranging from teenage girls to middle-aged women?
A) Becoming Jane.
B) Emma (1996).
C) Pride and Prejudice (2005).
D) Clueless.
  • 11. Which country's Bollywood regularly produces versions of Austen's books set in modern India?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) Japan
D) Bangladesh
  • 12. What is the first Japanese critic to draw attention to Jane Austen?
A) Nogami Toyoichirō
B) Yumiko Kurahashi
C) Lafcadio Hearn.
D) Natsume Sōseki.
  • 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) Kandukondain Kandukondain.
C) Aisha.
D) Bride and Prejudice.
  • 14. Which country first translated Austen into Turkish as 'Sağduyu ve Duyarlık'?
A) Turkey
B) Korea
C) China
D) Iran
  • 15. Which Iranian writer recalled teaching Austen secretly in Iran during the 1990s?
A) Zhu Hong
B) Azar Nafisi.
C) Wei Yi
D) Park Wansuh
  • 16. Which country's adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice' as 'Omangwa Pyungyeon' aired between October 2014-January 2015?
A) Iran
B) China
C) South Korea.
D) Turkey
  • 17. Which American Janeite stated that Austen's novels feature female 'rebels' who defy societal norms?
A) Myretta Robens.
B) Nicole M. Wright
C) Elaine Bander
D) Laurel Ann Nattress
  • 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) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
B) Clueless
C) Bridget Jones's Diary
D) Bride & Prejudice
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