Sense and Sensibility

Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Chapters 1-17

Reading Check

1. Who talks John out of adequately providing for his sisters?

2. What is Sir John Middleton’s home called?

3. Whose failure to quickly visit Barton Cottage upsets Marianne?

4. Who rescues Marianne when she is out walking and hurts her ankle?

5. What extravagant present does Willoughby try to give Marianne?

6. How long is Edward in Devonshire before he visits the Dashwoods?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. How do the women in the Dashwood family end up losing their home?

2. What is so insulting about Fanny’s remarks about her mother presenting a danger to any woman without wealth who tries to get close to Edward?

3. What difference between Elinor and Marianne is evident in their differing reactions to Mrs. Jennings’s vulgar curiosity about their love lives?

4. What are Elinor’s reasons for being skeptical of Marianne’s romantic entanglement with Willoughby?

5. What scandalous rumor does Mrs. Jennings share with Elinor when the excursion to Whitwall must be postponed?

6. What happens on the day that Mrs. Dashwood believes Willoughby will propose to Marianne?