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

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

3. Why is Jane taken and locked in the red-room?
(a) Because she defends herself against Bessie.
(b) Because she pulls Georgiana's hair.
(c) Because she defends herself against John.
(d) Because she tells on Eliza.

4. In the red-room, why does Jane rush at the door and shake the lock to escape?
(a) Because Bessie has threatened to strike her with a whip.
(b) Because she thinks there is a ghost in the room.
(c) Because she is cold and wants to light the fire.
(d) Because John is taunting her in the room.

5. Jane is speaking to whom when she states, "I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty."
(a) Bessie.
(b) John.
(c) Mrs. Reed.
(d) Mr. Reed.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

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

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

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

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 __________."

(see the answer key)

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