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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XXI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like as the novel opens?
(a) Temperate and mild.
(b) Hot and muggy.
(c) Cold and rainy.
(d) Warm and sunny.

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

3. According to Jane, what three things, when combined, make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key?
(a) Presentiments, sympathies, and signs.
(b) Dreams, sympathies, and signs.
(c) Imaginings, presentiments, and sympathies.
(d) Dreams, imaginings, and signs.

4. What is the gypsy doing when Jane enters the library?
(a) Eating and muttering.
(b) Drinking and rocking.
(c) Reading and muttering.
(d) Reading and drinking.

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 __________."
(a) Hated; approved; friends.
(b) Envied; disapproved; enemies.
(c) Hated; disapproved; friends.
(d) Envied; approved; enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jane rush to Mr. Rochester's room after being awakened in the middle of the night by demonic laughter?

2. During what month does Jane return to see Mrs. Reed at Gateshead?

3. According to Jane, why is Blanche "too inferior" to excite jealousy?

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

5. Why is Jane surprised to learn that Mr. Rochester is the proprietor of Thornfield?

(see the answer key)

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