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jane austen: mastery test
select the correct text in the passage.
which lines in these excerpts from jane austen's pride and prejudice are examples of free indirect speech?
1. within a short walk of longbourn lived a family with whom the bennets were particularly intimate. sir willian
trade in meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address
the distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. it had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residen
quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from meryton, denominated from t
he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being
though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to everybody.
and obliging, his presentation at st. james's had made him courteous.
2. he was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at
party. nothing could be more delightful! to be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love and un