Jane Eyre Characters Quiz
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë · 13 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 10 min
Test your knowledge of Jane Eyre with 13 characters questions with answers and explanations — motives, relationships and how characters change. Ideal for revision once you have read the whole novel.
Motives, relationships and how characters change. Drawn from the whole novel — contains spoilers.
Skills tested: Character · Difficulty: Standard, Challenge, Easy
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- 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
- 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
- What is Jane's reply when Rochester asks whether she thinks him handsome?
That she had not thought to look at him · That he is handsomer than Brocklehurst · That beauty is a matter of private taste · A flat no, out before she can check it
- What account does Rochester give of how Adèle came into his household?
She was left him by an opera-dancer · She was a tenant's child at Thornfield · She was his ward by his brother's will · She was sent over by Mrs Fairfax's niece
- How does Blanche Ingram talk about governesses with Jane sitting in the room?
As rivals for any gentleman's notice · As deserving of pity and better wages · As useful but better kept out of sight · As a nuisance to be mimicked and mocked
- Why does Jane agree to go back to the aunt who used her so badly?
She will not refuse a dying woman · Bessie begs her to come for Eliza · Rochester orders her to settle it · She hopes for a share of the money
- What does Rochester do as soon as the wedding is stopped?
Rides to Millcote to fetch his lawyer · Orders Mason out of the house at once · Shuts Jane in the vestry to argue there · Takes the whole party up to see Bertha
- What future has St John Rivers settled on for himself?
To marry Rosamond and keep Morton · To follow his father into business · To take a living in the far north · To go out to India as a missionary
- What does Jane work out about St John and Rosamond Oliver?
He has already asked her father · He loves her but will not have her · He thinks her unfit to teach the poor · He means to marry her for her money
- 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
- In what state does Jane find Rochester at Ferndean?
Lamed, and living on charity · Deaf, and attended by Adèle · Blind, and with one hand lost · Ruined, with Thornfield sold
- Which Lowood figure teaches Jane the creed of patient endurance?
Miss Scatcherd, who punishes her · Bessie Lee, the Gateshead nurse · Helen Burns, who dies there · Miss Temple, the superintendent
- What does Jane claim about herself and Rochester in the orchard?
That their spirits meet as equals · That her poverty is her own fault · That she owes him obedience · That he must answer for Bertha
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