Quiz: Which P&P Character are you?
Take our fun quiz to discover which character from Pride and Prejudice you would be! The quiz features costume designs by Rex Whistler, currently on display in our new exhibition 'Staging Pride and Prejudice'.1. Your dream weekend would be:
A – Going to a big party with lots of your friends
B – Going on a visit to a beautiful stately home
C – Meeting up with your friends for a good gossip
D – Going on a walk through the countryside
E – Instructing someone in the best way to pack their luggage
2. Your friends would describe you as
A – Fun and energetic
B – Calming and reassuring
C – Busy and dramatic
D – Funny and clever
E – Confident and opinionated
3. If someone were trying to impress you, they should
A – Host a big party!
B – Offer you their arm while you walk together
C – Have a large fortune and a nice house
D – Take care of their family and friends
E – You are impossible to impress!
4. A friend asks you for romantic advice about a suitor, do you
A – Encourage them to run away together – what a laugh!
B – Suggest they reconsider their suitor’s flaws, they might not be so bad as first thought
C – Tell them to get married or you won’t speak to them again!
D – Ask them if they really like and respect this suitor
E – Remind them that the match would be unequal and absolutely impossible
5. You’re at a party and someone has started performing on the pianoforte, are you
A – Immediately getting up to dance
B – Sitting back and enjoying the pleasant music
C – Looking round for any suitors to set your friends up with
D – Feeling grateful that you weren’t asked to play
E – Loudly telling everyone that you would have been a great proficient, had you ever learned to play
6. When you visit someone’s house for the first time, do you
A – Start planning where they can host a party
B – Have a look around the garden
C – Try and work out how much the house must’ve cost
D – Admire the library
E – Suggest some better storage solutions – shelves in a closet, perhaps?
Enter the gallery to discover which character you most resemble!
Mostly A – You are Lydia Bennet
‘wild, noisy, and fearless’, the youngest Bennet sister is definitely the most lively. Lydia loves flirting, gossiping, dancing, and anyone in a red coat. She livens up any party and certainly knows how to keep people on their toes.
Mostly B – You are Mrs Gardiner
‘amiable, intelligent, elegant’, Mrs Gardiner is the beloved Aunt of the Bennet girls. She offers wise advice to Lizzy as she navigates her feelings for Darcy and is the kind of friend who’ll always help you out.
Mostly C – You are Mrs Bennet
One of the most iconic mothers in literature, Mrs Bennet has a lot of emotions and likes to tell you about them. She may have ‘poor nerves’, but her heart is in the right place as she tries to secure her daughters’ futures.
Mostly D – You are Lizzy Bennet
One of the most beloved heroines in all of literature, Elizabeth Bennet is delightfully witty and she has ‘a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous’. Sometimes a bit quick to judge, but she’ll always look out for her closest loved ones.
Mostly E – You are Lady Catherine de Bourgh
‘a most attentive neighbour’, nothing is beneath the notice of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. She will always have a piece of advice or suggestion for you, from matters of marriage to those of packing your trunk.
These images are costume designs by Rex Whistler (1905-1944) for the 1936 production of Pride and Prejudice at St James’s Theatre, London. Find out more in our exhibition Staging Pride and Prejudice!