Jane Eyre Final Test: Whole-Novel Quiz
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë · 10 multiple-choice questions with answers · about 8 min
A 10-question Jane Eyre final test with answers: use it as an end-of-novel review, a unit test or quick GCSE revision once you have finished reading.
Covers the whole novel — contains spoilers.
Skills tested: Structure, Character, Theme, Language, Inference, Context, Recall · Difficulty: Standard, Easy, Challenge
The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.
- 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
- 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 hold out against at Thornfield and again at Moor House?
Being paid less than her worth · Being asked to live abroad · Being parted from her cousins · Being used on another's terms
- 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
- What stands between Jane and marriage to Rochester at the first attempt?
Her lack of a fortune of her own · A living wife shut in the attic · The want of her uncle's consent · Blanche Ingram's prior claim
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Who is Adèle Varens?
Rochester's niece by his dead brother · Rochester's French ward at Thornfield · Mrs Fairfax's orphaned granddaughter · Blanche Ingram's young French cousin
- 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
Original questions written for Pagine. Quotations are from the public-domain text.
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