Web+Quest

Directions: Visit each of the websites and answer the questions below. Objective: Answer the questions to learn more about Jane Austen and her novels. [] [] [|http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/austenbio.html] [] [] [] [|http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Literature/Northanger-Abbey-11997.htm] []
 * 1) How many novels did Jane Austen write?
 * 2) What genre are Austen’s stories?
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 * 1) Who were Austen’s parents?
 * 2) How many siblings did Austen have?
 * 3) What is her birth date?
 * 4) What is her date of death?
 * 1) What age did she write her first novel?
 * 2) What novels did she publish in her early twenties?
 * 3) What book was never completed?
 * 4) What did Jane attend as a young woman?
 * 5) What year did her parents announce they were moving?
 * 6) Where would they move?
 * 1) What nationality is Austen?
 * 2) How many volumes are in //Sense and Sensibility//?
 * 3) Where and by which company was //Pride and Prejudice// published?
 * 4) What are Austen’s works regarded as?
 * 5) Where was her father a clergyman?
 * 6) What small village did they live in?
 * 1) Who was Austen’s rejected suitor?
 * 2) Besides being involved with romanticism, what was Austen also considered?
 * 3) How did her family feel about her writing?
 * 4) How did she publish her books regarding the author’s name?
 * 5) What problems exist in her books?
 * 6) How successful was Austen?
 * 1) What did Austen’s father do besides serve the church?
 * 2) Who was of a higher social class, Austen’s mother or father?
 * 3) In what year did Jane and her sister go to be taught by their aunt?
 * 4) Who was Ann Cooper Cawley’s late husband?
 * 5) Who was Jane educated by other than her aunt?
 * 6) What was Jane’s personality like?
 * 1) What was outside the room where she wrote?
 * 2) What would she do if someone came into her writing room?
 * 3) What sports did she like?
 * 4) At least how many times did she rewrite each of her novels?
 * 5) What did her letters reveal to her sister and best friend?
 * 6) What age did she die?
 * 1) Where does Catherine live?
 * 2) Where do Catherine and Henry’s first meeting occur?
 * 3) What does Catherine think happened to Henry’s mother?
 * 4) What is the name of Catherine’s brother who is engaged to Isabella Thorpe?
 * 5) What rank is Henry’s father?
 * 6) What city does the majority of the story take place in?
 * 1) Why are the Dashwoods forced to move?
 * 2) Who does Lucy Steele marry?
 * 3) How old are the Dashwood girls?
 * 4) What was the name of the Dashwoods’ estate?
 * 5) Who does Willoughby marry?
 * 6) What is the name of John Middleton’s estate?