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From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20060412
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Byline: Tanya Barrientos

``Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs'' by Paula Marantz Cohen; St. Martin's ($23.95)

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Number-two pencils out, please.

Answer the following: ``West Side Story'' is to "Romeo and Juliet'' as Paula Marantz Cohen's third novel, "Jane Austen in Scarsdale, Or Love, Death, and the SATs'' is to:

A. "Emma''

B. "Sense and Sensibility''

C. ``Persuasion''

The correct answer is "C," but don't feel as if you need to run to the library and scan the 19th-century classic before diving into Cohen's delightful ...

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