Jane Eyre Chapters 5-8 Quiz (Chapters 5–8)

Jane Eyre Chapters 5-8 questions

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1. What is set before the girls at Jane's first breakfast at Lowood that none of them can eat?
   Porridge burnt in the cooking · Tea brewed too weak to taste · Bread spread with rancid butter · Milk that had turned in the jug
2. What book is Helen Burns reading when Jane first speaks to her?
   A hymn-book lent by Miss Temple · Rasselas, which Jane finds dull · Goldsmith's History of Rome · Bewick's History of British Birds
3. How does Helen answer Jane's argument that she should strike back at Miss Scatcherd?
   By saying she deserves the twigs for untidiness · By warning that Miss Temple would punish her · By urging her to love her enemies and endure · By agreeing that injustice must be resisted
4. 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
5. What finally clears Jane of Brocklehurst's public charge of deceit?
   Mr Lloyd's reply to Miss Temple's letter · Helen's testimony before the whole school · Miss Scatcherd's change of mind about her · A letter sent by Bessie from Gateshead

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