How many sisters did Charlotte Brontë have? Which previously male name did she popularise as a female name? Take our quiz and find out
1 How many sisters did Charlotte Brontë have?Two Three Four Five 2 As children, Charlotte and her brother Branwell wrote stories set in a fantasy world. What was the name of that world?Narnia Angria Rodania Eldasia 3 Under what male pseudonym did Charlotte Brontë publish Jane Eyre?Currer Bell Charles Brontë Christian Brown Cole Boseley4In Jane Eyre, Jane’s friend Helen dies from tuberculosis. Which of Charlotte’s sisters is this based on?Maria Elizabeth Both 5 Which previously male name did Charlotte popularise as a female name in one of her novels?Lyndall Carol Lindesay Shirley 6 One of Charlotte’s author friends described her as “underdeveloped, thin and more than half a head shorter than I ... [with] a reddish face, large mouth and many teeth gone; altogether plain” (ouch). Who was it?William Thackeray Elizabeth Gaskell Charles Dickens George Eliot 7”It is her finest novel. All her force, and it is the more tremendous for being constricted, goes into the assertion, ‘I love. I hate. I suffer.’” About which Charlotte Brontë work did Virginia Woolf say this?Shirley Tales of Angria Jane Eyre Villette 8 Charlotte died the oldest of the Brontë sisters. What age was she when she died?26 30 38 41 9 How many of Charlotte’s novels were published in her lifetime?One Two Three Four 10 Elizabeth Gaskell wrote The Life of Charlotte Brontë in 1857. What scandalous gossip did she deliberately omit from the biography?That Charlotte’s brother Branwell was a suspected opium eater. That Charlotte had fallen in love and written letters to a married man. That Charlotte had known William Thackeray’s wife was in an asylum when she dedicated Jane Eyre to him. That Charlotte’s former school master attempted to sue her because he thought the abusive Mr. Brocklehurst was based on him.
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