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