Jane Eyre Plot recall Quiz

Jane Eyre Plot recall questions

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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 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
3. 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
4. What is Helen Burns dying of while typhus empties the rest of Lowood?
   A fever brought on by the damp · Consumption, in Miss Temple's room · Scarlet fever, caught in the sickroom · Typhus, caught in the schoolroom
5. What does Rochester ask to see on the first evening he sends for Jane downstairs?
   The household accounts kept for him · Her certificates from Lowood school · Her portfolio of watercolour drawings · Adèle's copy-books and French exercises
6. How does Jane put out the fire in Rochester's bedroom?
   She smothers the curtains with his cloak · She douses the bed with basin and ewer · She calls Grace Poole and John the servant · She drags the bedding to the stone hearth
7. Who arrives unexpectedly at Thornfield from the West Indies during the house party?
   Mr Mason, lately come from Jamaica · Lord Ingram, Blanche's elder brother · Mr Carter, a surgeon from Millcote · Mr Eshton, a magistrate of the shire
8. What does Rochester tell the frightened house guests after the cry in the night?
   That a window blew in on the third floor · That thieves had been driven off by Pilot · That a servant had a dream and screamed · That Grace Poole had fallen on the stairs
9. 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
10. What does Jane tell Rochester she saw in her room on the night before the wedding?
    A light moving behind the curtains · A woman who tore her veil in two · Adèle walking in her sleep again · Grace Poole at the wedding chest
11. What work does St John find for Jane, and on what terms?
    A village school, thirty pounds a year · A charity school at Whitcross, for keep · A post teaching in Diana's old house · A governess's place with the Olivers
12. What two pieces of news does St John bring Jane through the snow?
    A post in India, and Diana's return home · Her uncle's death, and Rochester's address · A legacy from Mrs Reed, and Bessie's news · A fortune of twenty thousand, and kinship
13. What does Jane find when she walks up to Thornfield?
    A blackened ruin, empty of everyone · The house shut up and let to others · Rochester nursing Adèle in the hall · Mrs Fairfax keeping it all as before
14. How did Bertha Mason die?
    She was shot by a servant on the stairs · She threw herself from the roof in the fire · She drowned in the pond by the orchard · She was overcome by smoke in her room
15. 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

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