Emily Brontë - Quiz
Emily Brontë
  • 1. What gift inspired the Brontë children to begin writing stories?
A) A box of toy soldiers
B) A collection of poetry books
C) A globe of the world
D) A set of fountain pens
  • 2. What were the names of the two complex imaginary worlds created by the children?
A) Gondal and Haworth
B) The Young Men and the Twelves
C) Yorkshire and London
D) Glass Town and Angria
  • 3. Who were the real-life heroes featured in the early Glass Town stories?
A) The Duke of Wellington and his sons
B) The King of England and his advisors
C) Scottish Highlanders
D) Byronic heroes
  • 4. At what age did Emily and Anne withdraw from the Angria story?
A) Twenty
B) Thirteen
C) Ten
D) Seventeen
  • 5. What was the name of the fictional island Emily and Anne created?
A) Angria
B) Gondal
C) Haworth
D) Glass Town
  • 6. Which queen from the Gondal tales is similar to Catherine Earnshaw?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) The Queen of the Twelves
C) Anne Brontë
D) Augusta Geraldine Almeda
  • 7. What provided the inspiration for the characters in Gondal?
A) The Duke of Wellington
B) The soldiers from Glass Town
C) The Scottish Highlander
D) The children's father
  • 8. What is the title of Branwell Brontë's work that may have inspired Wuthering Heights?
A) Gondal Tales
B) The Young Men
C) The Life of Alexander Percy
D) Glass Town
  • 9. At what age did Emily join the Roe Head Girls' School?
A) Seventeen
B) Fifteen
C) Twenty
D) Thirteen
  • 10. Why did Emily leave Roe Head Girls' School after a few months?
A) She was needed at home to cook
B) Homesickness and resistance to routine
C) She became a teacher at Law Hill
D) She failed her exams
  • 11. When did Emily become a teacher at Law Hill School?
A) April 1839
B) September 1838
C) September 1840
D) December 1827
  • 12. How long was Emily's workday at Law Hill School?
A) Twelve hours
B) Ten hours
C) Eight hours
D) Seventeen hours
  • 13. Whose company did Emily prefer over her pupils at Law Hill?
A) The other teachers
B) The house dog
C) The Duke of Wellington
D) Anne Brontë
  • 14. What language did Emily teach herself from books?
A) Italian
B) Latin
C) French
D) German
  • 15. What musical instrument did Emily play?
A) Violin
B) Piano
C) Flute
D) Harp
  • 16. Who provided books to Emily and her sisters since girls were barred from the public library?
A) Branwell
B) Elizabeth Gaskell
C) Ellen Nussey
D) Patrick Brontë
  • 17. Which of the following was a favourite publication of the Brontë children?
A) The Times
B) The London Gazette
C) Blackwood's Magazine
D) Punch
  • 18. Which subject were the Brontë children tutored in besides drawing and painting?
A) Mathematics
B) Latin
C) Physics
D) Chemistry
  • 19. How many drawings and paintings by Emily are known to have survived?
A) Twenty-nine
B) Twelve
C) Forty-two
D) Seven
  • 20. What eccentric habit did Patrick Brontë allegedly have?
A) Writing in secret codes
B) Carrying a loaded gun
C) Sleeping during the day
D) Walking barefoot
  • 21. Who wrote the biography of Charlotte Brontë that depicted Patrick as having violent rages?
A) Ellen Nussey
B) Emily Brontë
C) Elizabeth Gaskell
D) Branwell Brontë
  • 22. What was one reason given for the Brontë children being perceived as outsiders?
A) Their Irish accent
B) Their lack of religious faith
C) Their political affiliations
D) Their poor clothing
  • 23. Which sibling was described by Ellen Nussey as being 'like twins' with Emily?
A) Maria
B) Branwell
C) Charlotte
D) Anne
  • 24. Which book was included in the Brontë children's favourites list?
A) Pilgrim's Progress
B) The Odyssey
C) Aesop's Fables
D) Paradise Lost
  • 25. In what year were Emily and her sisters sent to Cowan Bridge?
A) 1825
B) 1830
C) 1820
D) 1824
  • 26. What was the name of the school attended by the Brontë sisters in 1824?
A) Clergy Daughters' School
B) Penzance Institute
C) Cowan Bridge Seminary
D) Haworth Academy
  • 27. How old was Emily when she was admitted to the school?
A) Eight
B) Five
C) Seven
D) Six
  • 28. What did the school register note about Emily's reading ability?
A) She reads very prettily
B) She struggles to read
C) She is illiterate
D) She reads extensively
  • 29. Who was the house servant that helped care for the children?
A) Maria Branwell
B) Jane Eyre
C) Tabby Ackroyd
D) Elizabeth Smith
  • 30. What is Emily Brontë's most famous novel?
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Jane Eyre
C) Agnes Grey
D) Villette
  • 31. In what year was Wuthering Heights published?
A) 1848
B) 1850
C) 1847
D) 1818
  • 32. Under what pen name did Emily Brontë publish her work?
A) Acton Bell
B) Ellis Bell
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Currer Bell
  • 33. At what age did Emily Brontë die?
A) 32
B) 30
C) 35
D) 28
  • 34. Who taught Emily Brontë for most of her life?
A) A private tutor
B) Maria Branwell
C) Elizabeth Branwell
D) Patrick Brontë
  • 35. Where did Emily spend most of her life?
A) London
B) Haworth
C) Thornton
D) Brussels
  • 36. In which village was Emily Brontë born?
A) Penzance
B) Bradford
C) Thornton
D) Haworth
  • 37. What profession did Patrick Brontë hold in Haworth?
A) Doctor
B) Schoolmaster
C) Perpetual curate
D) Merchant
  • 38. What health issue in Haworth was believed to have impacted the Brontë siblings' health?
A) Lack of sunlight
B) Air pollution
C) Contaminated water supply
D) Poor diet
  • 39. In what year did Emily and Charlotte travel to Brussels?
A) 1842
B) 1846
C) 1844
D) 1840
  • 40. What was the name of the school the sisters attended in Brussels?
A) Wheelwright School
B) Heger Pensionnat
C) Brontë Boarding School
D) Haworth Academy
  • 41. What was a major social barrier for the sisters at the school?
A) They were Protestants in a Catholic-majority setting
B) They refused to speak French
C) They did not have enough books
D) They were too young for the class
  • 42. Who described Emily as an 'ungainly, ill-dressed figure'?
A) Laetitia Wheelwright
B) Mrs Gaskell
C) Madame Heger
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 43. What did Constantin Heger believe about Emily's intellect?
A) It was hindered by her lack of formal training
B) It was strictly logical and lacked creativity
C) It was lower than the other students
D) It was higher than Charlotte's
  • 44. What profession did Constantin Heger compare Emily to?
A) A great navigator
B) A school headmistress
C) A professional musician
D) A famous poet
  • 45. What musical composer did Emily particularly admire?
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Franz Schubert
  • 46. Who was the sixteen-year-old student Emily befriended?
A) Laetitia Wheelwright
B) Louise de Bassompierre
C) Madame Heger
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 47. When did Emily Brontë begin recopying her poems into notebooks?
A) February 1844
B) Autumn 1845
C) December 1843
D) January 1846
  • 48. Who discovered Emily's poetry notebooks in 1845?
A) Anne
B) Derek Roper
C) Charlotte
D) Fannie Ratchford
  • 49. Which poem did Emily write around the time of the discovery of her notebooks?
A) Wuthering Heights
B) No coward soul is mine
C) Agnes Grey
D) The Professor
  • 50. Who published the sisters' poetry volume in 1846?
A) The Athenaeum
B) The Critic
C) Penguin Books
D) Aylott & Jones
  • 51. How many poems did Emily contribute to the 1846 volume?
A) Fifteen
B) Twenty-one
C) Nineteen
D) Twenty-five
  • 52. How many copies of the sisters' poetry book were initially reported as sold?
A) Zero
B) Two
C) Fifty
D) Twenty
  • 53. Which publication praised Ellis Bell's work for its 'music and power'?
A) The Critic
B) The London Times
C) The Athenaeum
D) The Monthly Review
  • 54. Who published Wuthering Heights in 1847?
A) Thomas Cautley Newby
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) Smith, Elder & Co.
D) Anne Brontë
  • 55. Which novel's success in October 1847 influenced the release of Wuthering Heights?
A) Agnes Grey
B) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
C) Rob Roy
D) Jane Eyre
  • 56. In what year was Emily Brontë's real name finally printed on the title page of her novel?
A) 1849
B) After 1848
C) 1847
D) 1850
  • 57. Wuthering Heights was originally part of a three-volume set that included which other novel?
A) Jane Eyre
B) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
C) Agnes Grey
D) Rob Roy
  • 58. Which author's work influenced Wuthering Heights besides Emily's own Gondal writings?
A) Thomas Cautley Newby
B) Juliet Gardiner
C) Walter Scott
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 59. Which critic described the characters as "utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible"?
A) Thomas Joudrey
B) A critic for the periodical Atlas
C) Juliet Gardiner
D) Charlotte Brontë
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