Jane Eyre Challenge Quiz

Jane Eyre Challenge questions

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1. What does Jane threaten Mrs Reed with once Brocklehurst has gone?
   To run away to Bessie's family in the village · To write to her uncle for another home · To refuse to go to Lowood school at all · To tell everyone at Lowood how she was used
2. Brocklehurst orders Julia Severn's curls cut off — what in the same scene undercuts him?
   Miss Temple's open defence of the girl · His admission that he dyes his own hair · The laughter of the assembled teachers · The velvet and furs worn by his own family
3. Pacing the third-storey corridor, on what grounds does Jane defend her own restlessness?
   That she was promised travel at Thornfield · That women feel as men feel and need action · That a governess is owed the rank of a lady · That solitude is the worst evil for a woman
4. On hearing that Rochester is at the Leas with Blanche Ingram, what does Jane set herself to do?
   Burn the drawings Rochester had praised · Ask Mrs Fairfax to release her from her post · Draw her own plain portrait beside Blanche's · Write to Lowood for another situation at once
5. How does Mason describe his attacker when Jane and Rochester reach him?
   That he came to warn Jane of danger · That he would lay it before a judge · That Grace Poole had let him in alone · That she worried him like a tigress
6. What does Mrs Reed confess to Jane before she dies?
   That she never read Jane's letters · That she told John Eyre Jane had died · That she burned her mother's letters · That she had promised Jane a legacy
7. What reason does Jane give herself for leaving Thornfield?
   That she must respect herself to keep her worth · That Rochester will tire of her within a year · That the law would punish her as an accomplice · That Bertha has the stronger claim in justice
8. What does St John tear from the edge of Jane's paper before hurrying out?
   A corner bearing Rochester's initials · A note she had begun to Mrs Fairfax · A scrap where she had written her name · A sketch she had made of Rosamond
9. On what terms does St John ask Jane to come out to India?
   As a schoolmistress paid from her own · As his wife, to be of use to him · As companion to Diana on the voyage · As a fellow missionary, free to marry
10. What do Jane and Rochester discover when they compare the night he cried out her name?
    That Diana had written to tell him so · That she had dreamt the same at Morton · That she was already travelling to him · That his cry and her answer fell together
11. Beast imagery attaches most persistently to which character?
    Bertha Mason, on the third storey · John Reed, in the Gateshead rooms · Grace Poole, keeping her watch · Mr Brocklehurst, the black pillar
12. Under what name did the novel first appear in 1847?
    Charlotte Brontë, her own name · Acton Bell, used by all three · Ellis Bell, as Wuthering Heights · Currer Bell, Charlotte's pen name
13. What has become of the three Rivers cousins by the last chapter?
    They settle at Ferndean with Jane · All three go out to India together · Two marry; St John is dying in India · St John marries Rosamond Oliver

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