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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of Leah's and the charwoman's conversation that Jane overhears, and is dropped once they perceive her?
(a) Blanche Ingram.
(b) Mr. Rochester.
(c) Jane.
(d) Grace Poole.

2. As she overhears Miss Abbot's and Bessie's conversation, Jane learns her parents died from what?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Small pox.

3. According to Jane, as she observes Mr. Rochester's talking with Louisa and Amy Eshton, she thinks that she understands the language of his countenance, though _____ and ________sever them.
(a) Rank; wealth.
(b) Feeling; wealth.
(c) Rank; taste.
(d) Taste; feeling.

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

5. To whom is Blanche referring when she tells Mr. Rochester that "half of them detestable, and the rest ridiculous"?
(a) Governesses.
(b) Handmaidens.
(c) Mistresses.
(d) Servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Jane and other girls forced to part with their portion of food at Lowood during the cold winter months?

2. 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 __________."

3. What is Mr. Brocklehurst's complaint about Julia Severn's hair?

4. Jane puts on what gift from Miss Temple for her first tea-time with Mr. Rochester?

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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