Jane Eyre Chapters 1-4 Quiz (Chapters 1–4)

Jane Eyre Chapters 1-4 questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. What is Jane doing when John Reed hunts her out on the opening afternoon?
   Playing cards with Eliza and Georgiana · Walking in the shrubbery with her cousins · Sewing by the nursery fire with Bessie · Reading Bewick's book of British birds
2. What does Jane call John Reed as he seizes her in the breakfast room?
   A murderer, a slave-driver, a Roman emperor · A tyrant, a madman and a heathen boy · A coward, a bully and a common thief · A liar, a hypocrite and a false friend
3. What makes the red-room terrifying to Jane once she is locked into it?
   Bessie has told her a ghost walks there · It is the chamber where Mr Reed died · It is where John Reed keeps his snares · Its window looks out on the churchyard
4. When Mr Brocklehurst asks Jane how she will avoid the pit of hell, what does she answer?
   That she must pray and read her Bible · That she must learn the Psalms by heart · That she must keep in good health and not die · That she must obey her aunt in all things
5. 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

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