Jane Eyre Language & structure Quiz

Jane Eyre Language & structure questions

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1. 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
2. How long does Jane stay at Lowood before she advertises for a new position?
   Ten years, eight as pupil and two as teacher · Four years, three as pupil and one as teacher · Eight years, six as pupil and two as teacher · Six years, four as pupil and two as teacher
3. How does Jane's mind explain the dog and horse in the Hay lane before the rider falls?
   As the Gytrash of Bessie's old tales · As a dream left from her afternoon · As hounds strayed out from Millcote · As a poacher's dog loose on the road
4. 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
5. What happens to the great chestnut tree on the night Rochester proposes?
   Rochester has it felled at daybreak · Jane carves their initials into it · Adèle hangs her garlands upon it · Lightning splits it down the middle
6. Who stops the wedding in the church, and on what ground?
   The clergyman, on hearing of Bertha · Mason, demanding the dowry back · A solicitor, declaring a wife living · Mrs Fairfax, refusing to witness it
7. 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
8. What breaks the hold St John has almost won over Jane?
   A letter arriving from Mrs Fairfax · Diana's return from her schoolroom · The clock striking midnight below · A voice crying her name three times
9. Whose words close the novel?
   St John's, from his mission in India · Diana's, in a letter sent from sea · Jane's, ten years into her marriage · Adèle's, on leaving school at last
10. In what order does Jane live at the novel's five houses?
    Lowood, Gateshead, Thornfield, Ferndean, Moor House · Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield, Moor House, Ferndean · Gateshead, Lowood, Moor House, Thornfield, Ferndean · Gateshead, Thornfield, Lowood, Moor House, Ferndean
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. Whom does Jane's narration repeatedly turn aside to address?
    Diana and Mary, her cousins · Adèle, as a moral lesson · The reader, addressed directly · Rochester, as a long letter
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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