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

2. 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?
(a) Because Mr. Lloyd is studying to become a physician.
(b) Because Mrs. Reed has employed an apothecary to care for Jane and the servants.
(c) Because the nearest physician lives in Bath.
(d) Because the physician Mrs. Reed has employed is out of town.

3. 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.

4. Who, according to Jane, in her final eight years at Lowood, "stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion"?
(a) Mrs. Brocklehurst.
(b) Miss Temple.
(c) Miss Scatcherd.
(d) Miss Miller.

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?"
(a) Moving to America.
(b) Marrying a rich beau.
(c) Exploring the world.
(d) Attending school.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the weather like as the novel opens?

4. Why is Jane taken and locked in the red-room?

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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