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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. Who holds down Jane's arms and threatens to tie her down in the red-room?
(a) John and Miss Abbot.
(b) Mrs. Reed and Miss Abbot.
(c) Bessie and Mrs. Reed.
(d) Bessie and Miss Abbot.

2. According to Jane, why are the girls predisposed to becoming ill so that forty-five out of eighty are afflicted?
(a) Because of physical abuse and lack of vitamins.
(b) Because of stifling heat and a fatty diet.
(c) Because of lack of exercise and too many sweets.
(d) Because of semi-starvation and neglected colds.

3. After the disease abates at Lowood, what discovery is made that is mortifying to Mr. Brocklehurst?
(a) The discovery of the ill-treatment and poor conditions at the school.
(b) The discovery of missing funds and abusive teachers at the school.
(c) The discovery of abducted children and slave wages at the school.
(d) The discovery of scandalous behavior and excessive opulence at the school.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What month is it when Jane departs for Lowood?

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

3. What does Jane first eat at Lowood that is disgusting, but is devoured out of hunger?

4. 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?"

5. As Mr. Lloyd questions Jane about her life at Gateshead, Jane's spirit is moved by what prospect which implies "an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life?"

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