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

2. What month is it when Jane departs for Lowood?
(a) April.
(b) June.
(c) September.
(d) January.

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

4. Who, according to Jane, in her final eight years at Lowood, "stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion"?
(a) Miss Miller.
(b) Miss Temple.
(c) Miss Scatcherd.
(d) Mrs. Brocklehurst.

5. Who holds down Jane's arms and threatens to tie her down in the red-room?
(a) John and Miss Abbot.
(b) Bessie and Mrs. Reed.
(c) Bessie and Miss Abbot.
(d) Mrs. Reed and Miss Abbot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Reed forbid Jane from joining her, Eliza, John, and Georgiana in the drawing-room?

2. Jane is speaking to whom when she states, "I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty."

3. What does Jane first eat at Lowood that is disgusting, but is devoured out of hunger?

4. After the disease abates at Lowood, what discovery is made that is mortifying to Mr. Brocklehurst?

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

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