View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX | Chapter X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Miss Temple respond to Jane's defense of her character in light of Mr. Brocklehurst's accusation?
(a) She scolds her.
(b) She slaps her.
(c) She ignores her.
(d) She kisses her.

2. Who orders a lunch of bread and cheese after learning of the girls' inedible breakfast?
(a) Miss Miller.
(b) Miss Temple.
(c) Miss Smith.
(d) Miss Scatcherd.

3. 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) Final-hour.
(b) Breakfast-hour.
(c) Dinner-hour.
(d) Play-hour.

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

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) Mr. Reed.
(d) Mrs. Reed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jane when the novel opens?

2. Who says to Helen, "Burns, you are standing on the side of your shoe; turn your toes out immediately," and "Burns, you poke your chin most unpleasantly; draw it in!"?

3. 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 __________."

4. Whom does Jane meet when she first arrives at Lowood?

5. According to Mr. Brocklehurst, Miss Temple NOT should not accustom the girls to what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 322 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample