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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jane respond to Mr. Lloyd's presence in the room?
(a) She feels apprehension and a conviction of insecurity and transformation.
(b) She feels indifference and a lack of conviction that she will recover.
(c) She feels panic and a conviction of incompetence and ill-will.
(d) She feels relief and a conviction of protection and security.

2. As Mr. Rochester and Jane discuss the prospect of her going to Ireland, what does Jane begin to do when she hears a nightingale?
(a) Sob.
(b) Run.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Whistle.

3. Who arrives at Lowood to see Jane and is mistaken for the carrier by her?
(a) Mrs. Reed.
(b) Bessie.
(c) Georgiana Reed.
(d) John Reed.

4. What does Mr. Rochester forbid Mr. Mason and Jane to do before he departs?
(a) Dine.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Leave.
(d) Converse.

5. According to Jane, what hour in the evening has provided "the ruddy gloaming, the licensed uproar, the confusion of many voices gave one a welcome sense of liberty?"
(a) Dinner-hour.
(b) Breakfast-hour.
(c) Play-hour.
(d) Final-hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the gypsy, what is within Jane's reach?

2. To whom is Jane referring when she thinks, "I will put her to some test, such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension"?

3. According to Bessie's husband, Robert Leaven, how has John Reed died?

4. What does Mr. Rochester ask to see of Jane's during their first tea-time?

5. As she comforts Jane after Mr. Brocklehurst leaves, Helen tells her, "If all the world ________ you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience ________ you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without __________."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jane tell the gypsy about her art, and why is this significant?

2. What does Mrs. Reed tell Mr. Brocklehurst about Jane, and how is this significant?

3. When Jane and Rochester meet in the garden, why does Mr. Rochester tell her about a position in Ireland?

4. What happens to Mr. Mason during his first night at Thornfield, and why is this significant?

5. From what do the girls at Lowood suffer when Spring arrives, and how is this significant?

6. What are the conditions like at Lowood, and what does it signify about the educational system?

7. What does Jane's first dinner with Mr. Rochester at Thornfield foreshadow?

8. What does Mr. Rochester demand of Jane and Mr. Mason when they are left alone together, and what does it signify?

9. Who arrives to tell the guests' fortunes? How does Blanche respond to her fortune's being told?

10. Why does Jane stay at Gateshead after Mrs. Reed passes, and why is this significant?

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