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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. 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.

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 __________."
(a) Envied; disapproved; enemies.
(b) Hated; disapproved; friends.
(c) Envied; approved; enemies.
(d) Hated; approved; friends.

3. Why does Mrs. Reed forbid Jane from joining her, Eliza, John, and Georgiana in the drawing-room?
(a) Because her children have complained that Jane is getting all the attention.
(b) Because she feels Jane has too much of a sociable and childlike disposition.
(c) Because she feels Jane is contagious and does not want her children to get sick.
(d) Because she feels Jane does not have a sociable and childlike disposition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. When Jane wakes up in her own bed after fainting in the red-room, why is Mr. Lloyd in the room and NOT a physician?

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

5. According to Jane, why are the girls predisposed to becoming ill so that forty-five out of eighty are afflicted?

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