Passage 1
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from Pride and Prejudice, A Play
by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye
ACTI
The drawing-room at Longbourn. At the back, wide glass
doors open upon a terrace which overlooks an English
landscape. It is winter, and coals are burning in the
fireplace. On each side of the glass doors are rounded
recesses with windows. On one side of the room a door
opens into the library. On the other side is a door to the hall
-the chief entrance of the house. The room is handsomely
furnished in eighteenth century style. MR. and MRS.
BENNET are discovered sitting on either side of the table.
MRS. BENNET is knitting-MR. BENNET reading.
MRS. BENNET: [After a slight pause and laying down
her knitting.] My dear Mr. Bennet, did
not you hear me? Did you know that
Netherfield Park is let at last?
MR. BENNET
[Continues reading and does not
answer.]
MRS. BENNET: [Impatiently.] Do not you want to know
who has taken it?
Select all the correct answers.
Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye's Pride and Prejudice, A Play is a drama inspired by Jane Austen's novel Pride and
Prejudice. Which two statements express how Mackaye's play transforms the original source?
The play portrays Mrs. Bennet as sharing different gossip than in the novel.
The play includes more details about the setting than the novel.
The play has a dark, dreary mood compared to the novel's bright, uplifting
mood.
The play does not include a narrator while the novel does.
The play portrays Mr. Bennet as less talkative than the novel does.
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