JANE EYRE (Questions)

JANE EYRE QUIZ Nº 1 by: Charlotte Brontë Name: ………………………..………………………………… Level: …………

A. - CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER. 1. What is the color of the room Jane is locked in at Gateshead? Gateshead? a) b) c) d)

Green Blue Fuchsia Red

2. Who is the servant servant at Gateshead? a) b) c) d)

Bessie Mrs. Reed Mrs. Fairfax Georgiana

3. How does John Reed die? a) b) c) d)

Tuberculosis Old age Murder Suicide

4. Who suggests suggests that Jane Jane attend attend school? school? a) b) c) d)

Jane Mr. Lloyd Bessie Mrs. Reed

5. Whose ghost does Jane believe she sees while while at Gateshead? Gateshead? a) b) c) d)

Her sister's Her uncle's Her father's Her mother's

6. What religious movement is Mr. Brocklehurst Brocklehurst a part of? a) b) c) d)

Victorianism Evangelicalism Stoicism Buddhism

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7. What teacher takes Jane under her wing at Lowood? a) b) c) d)

Mr. Brocklehurst Miss Temple Miss Scatcherd Helen Burns

8. What student befriends Jane at Lowood? a) b) c) d)

Helen Burns Diana Rivers Mary Rivers Miss Temple

9. An outbreak of what disease spreads throughout Lowood? a) b) c) d)

Leprosy Typhus Pneumonia Chicken pox

10. What does Mr. Brocklehurst do with the money meant for Lowood school? a) b) c) d)

Indulge his own family Publish books Fund his political causes Create a second school

11. How does Jane meet Mr. Rochester? a) b) c) d)

He is in the barn. He is digging a ditch. He is reading to Adele. He is on horseback.

12. Who is Adéle's mother? a) b) c) d)

Bertha Mason Mrs. Fairfax Céline Varens Miss Ingram

13. Who is Jane's rival for Mr. Rochester's affections? a) b) c) d)

Céline Varens Bertha Mason Mrs. Fairfax Miss Ingram

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14. What is Jane's position at Thornfield? a) b) c) d)

Cook Maid Seamstress Governess

15. What is Grace Poole's ostensible position at Thornfield? a) b) c) d)

Governess Maid Seamstress Cook

16. What is the real reason for Grace Poole's employment? a) b) c) d)

To kill any intruders To act as Rochester's mistress To brainwash Jane To guard Bertha Mason

17. What disguise does Mr. Rochester put on at one point? a) b) c) d)

Solicitor Fortune-teller Musician Magician

18. To whom does Mr. Rochester constantly attribute the demonic laughter from the third story? a) b) c) d)

Grace Poole Adéle Bertha Mason Mrs. Fairfax

19. Why did Mr. Rochester marry Bertha Mason? a) b) c) d)

For her wealth For her madness As a favor to her brother For her beauty

20. Whom does Mr. Rochester first tell Jane that he wants to marry? a) b) c) d)

Bertha Mason Mrs. Fairfax Miss Ingram Jane

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21. What did Mrs. Reed promise her dying husband? a) b) c) d)

To To To To

put Jane in the care of suitable foster parents. give Jane an equal share of their fortune. love Jane as one of her own children. put Jane in a suitable orphanage.

22. Where did Jane's uncle seek his fortune? a) b) c) d)

Madeira Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin

23. What item of Jane's clothing does Bertha Mason rip one night? a) b) c) d)

Her corset Her bonnet Her wedding-veil Her stockings

24. What two natural elements are important symbols in the novel? a) b) c) d)

Water and air Fire and ice Earth and water Fire and water

25. What might Bertha Mason's imprisonment symbolize in Victorian England? a) b) c) d)

The status of women in marriage. The status of wealthy women. The treatment of the insane. The treatment of beautiful women.

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JANE EYRE QUIZ Nº 2 by: Charlotte Brontë Name: ………………………..………………………………… Level: …………

A. - CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER. 1. What are the names of the servants who care for Rochester at Ferndean? a) b) c) d)

John and Clara Reginald and Mrs. Fairfax Mrs. Fairfax and Grace Poole John and Mary

2. Which character is in love with Rosamond? a) b) c) d)

St. John Rochester John Reed Mr. Mason

3. Who sets the fire in Rochester’s bedroom? a) b) c) d)

Jane Bertha Mrs. Fairfax Grace Poole

4. What has just happened to Mr. Mason the first time we encounter him? a) b) c) d)

He has fallen from the roof. He has been injured. He has been poisoned. He has fallen in love.

5. Which character is based on the Reverend Carus Wilson, a figure from Charlotte Brontë’s childhood? a) b) c) d)

St. John Rivers Rochester Mr. Brocklehurst Mr. Lloyd

6. Who writes to St. John regarding Jane’s inheritance from John Eyre? a) b) c) d)

Mr. Briggs Mr. Mason Mr. Brocklehurst Mrs. Reed

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7. How does John Reed apparently die? a) b) c) d)

He falls from the roof of Thornfield. He is killed in a fire. He has a stroke. He commits suicide.

8. Where did Rochester marry Bertha Mason? a) b) c) d)

Jamaica Madeira St. Kitts Bermuda

9. Who first suggests that Jane be sent away to school? a) b) c) d)

Mrs. Reed Mr. Brocklehurst Mr. Lloyd John Reed

10. What is the nationality of Jane’s pupil at Thornfield? a) b) c) d)

Spanish German Jamaican French

11. What does Rochester lose in the fire at Thornfield? a) b) c) d)

His hand and his eyesight His eyesight and his fortune His eyesight and his dog His fortune and his fiancée

12. Which teacher is kind to Jane at Lowood? a) b) c) d)

Mrs. Scatcherd Miss Temple Mr. Brocklehurst Miss Ames

13. What does the kind teacher give Jane and Helen to eat? a) b) c) d)

Bundt cake Strawberries Cookies Seed cake

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14. How does Jane earn a living after leaving Thornfield? a) b) c) d)

She paints. She writes and sells short stories. She becomes a governess at a different manor house. St. John Rivers finds her a teaching job in the town of Morton.

15. With whom does Jane believe Rochester is in love for most of her time at Thornfield? a) b) c) d)

Herself Blanche Ingram Georgianna Reed Celine Varens

16. What does Jane do with the inheritance she receives from her uncle John Eyre? She divides it equally among her cousins the Rivers. She starts a school in the town of Morton. She sends it to Gateshead to comfort the Reeds for the death of their mother. d) She buys ball gowns and jewelry for herself. a) b) c)

17. What is the nature of Jane’s first encounter with Rochester? Rochester comes to Lowood to enroll Adèle there, but Jane warns him about the coldness and isolation at Lowood and recommends that he hire her as Adèle’s live-in governess instead. b)  After having been abroad for some time, Rochester returns to Thornfield and sends for Jane to come to him in his library. c) Jane and Rochester were long lost childhood sweethearts. d) Jane helps a stranger whose horse has slipped on some ice; she discovers later that the man was Rochester. a)

18. What does Mr. Brocklehurst do to one of Jane’s classmates to rid her of her “vanity”? a) b) c) d)

He makes her wear a dunce cap. He has her naturally curly hair cut short so as to make it lie straight. He forces her to write “I am a very silly girl” on the chalkboard 100 times. He puts a curtain over her bedroom mirror.

19. How does Jane’s Aunt Reed punish her for fighting with her bullying cousin John? a) b) c) d)

She makes her sleep outside in the cold. She makes her eat only burnt porridge. She makes her shine John’s shoes for a week She locks her in the red-room. 7

20. To which destination does St. John Rivers want Jane to accompany him as his wife and fellow missionary? a) b) c) d)

India China The Congo Ireland

21. What is the name of the Riverses’ servant? a) b) c) d)

 Alice Bertha Hannah Persephone

22. What does Jane do immediately after finishing her studies at Lowood? a) b) c) d)

She answers an advertisement for a governess at Thornfield. She becomes a teacher there. She burns down the building. She is forced to wander penniless and starving across the moors.

23. Who wears the disguise of a gypsy woman? a) b) c) d)

Blanche Ingram Rochester Lady Ingram Lady Bartholomew

24. What happens within the first ten years of Jane and Rochester’s marriage? a) b) c) d)

 A daughter is born.  A son is born.  A star is born. None of the above

25. What is the subject of the book Jane is reading at the beginning of the novel? a) b) c) d)

Fish British royalty Fairies and knights Birds

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