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

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

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

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) Final-hour.
(d) Play-hour.

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. 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."

3. In the red-room, why does Jane rush at the door and shake the lock to escape?

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

5. What is inscribed on Helen's grave besides her name?

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