Jane Eyre | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter I | Chapter II

1. What is the weather like as the novel opens?

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

3. 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?"

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

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

6. In the red-room, why does Jane rush at the door and shake the lock to escape?

Short Answer Questions - Chapter III | Chapter IV

1. When Jane wakes up in her own bed after fainting in the red-room, why...
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