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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX | Chapter X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like as the novel opens?
(a) Cold and rainy.
(b) Temperate and mild.
(c) Warm and sunny.
(d) Hot and muggy.

2. How old is Jane when the novel opens?
(a) Seven.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.

3. According to Jane, why are the girls predisposed to becoming ill so that forty-five out of eighty are afflicted?
(a) Because of physical abuse and lack of vitamins.
(b) Because of semi-starvation and neglected colds.
(c) Because of stifling heat and a fatty diet.
(d) Because of lack of exercise and too many sweets.

4. What is inscribed on Helen's grave besides her name?
(a) Religious loci.
(b) Redivivus.
(c) Resurgam.
(d) Regnat populace.

5. Who orders a lunch of bread and cheese after learning of the girls' inedible breakfast?
(a) Miss Smith.
(b) Miss Scatcherd.
(c) Miss Temple.
(d) Miss Miller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who holds down Jane's arms and threatens to tie her down in the red-room?

2. When May arrives at Lowood, what is the "fog-bred pestilence" that arrives to transform the school into a hospital?

3. Why is Jane taken and locked in the red-room?

4. As Mr. Lloyd questions Jane about her life at Gateshead, Jane's spirit is moved by what prospect which implies "an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life?"

5. As she overhears Miss Abbot's and Bessie's conversation, Jane learns her parents died from what?

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