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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) Temperate and mild.
(b) Hot and muggy.
(c) Cold and rainy.
(d) Warm and sunny.

2. Why are Jane and other girls forced to part with their portion of food at Lowood during the cold winter months?
(a) Because the teachers tell them to do so.
(b) Because the younger girls are not allowed more than one portion.
(c) Because the smallest girls need the food.
(d) Because the older girls menace them into doing so.

3. According to Mr. Brocklehurst, Miss Temple NOT should not accustom the girls to what?
(a) Habits of obedience and servitude.
(b) Habits of luxury and indulgence.
(c) Habits of pleasure and moderation.
(d) Habits of poverty and frugality.

4. When May arrives at Lowood, what is the "fog-bred pestilence" that arrives to transform the school into a hospital?
(a) Small pox.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Polio.

5. Whom does Jane meet when she first arrives at Lowood?
(a) Mrs. Lloyd.
(b) Mrs. Brocklehurst.
(c) Miss Miller.
(d) Helen Burns.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jane when the novel opens?

2. According to Jane, who bullies and punishes her "not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually?"

3. How does Jane respond to Mr. Lloyd's presence in the room?

4. How does Miss Temple respond to Jane's defense of her character in light of Mr. Brocklehurst's accusation?

5. Who, according to Jane, in her final eight years at Lowood, "stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion"?

(see the answer key)

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