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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language does Adele speak fluently?
(a) French.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Greek.
(d) German.

2. Who tells Mr. Eshton that Jane "looks too stupid for any game of the sort"?
(a) Amy.
(b) Colonel Dent.
(c) Blanche.
(d) Mrs. Dent.

3. How does Jane respond to Mr. Lloyd's presence in the room?
(a) She feels relief and a conviction of protection and security.
(b) She feels apprehension and a conviction of insecurity and transformation.
(c) She feels panic and a conviction of incompetence and ill-will.
(d) She feels indifference and a lack of conviction that she will recover.

4. What month is it when Jane departs for Lowood?
(a) April.
(b) January.
(c) June.
(d) September.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Mrs. Reed forbid Jane from joining her, Eliza, John, and Georgiana in the drawing-room?

4. What is Mr. Brocklehurst's complaint about Julia Severn's hair?

5. According to Jane, Bessie once said that to dream of what was a sure sign of trouble?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jane punished in the Red Room, and why is the room significant?

2. When Jane first learns that Mr. Rochester may marry Blanche Ingram, why does she compare herself to her?

3. Why does Mr. Rochester insist Jane join the party each evening in the drawing room?

4. On her deathbed, Mrs. Reed informs Jane of what, and why is this significant?

5. Who arrives to tell the guests' fortunes? How does Blanche respond to her fortune's being told?

6. What is Jane's first impression of Thornfield in her new position as governess, and why is this significant?

7. How does Jane respond to Mr. Rochester's inquiry about whether she finds him attractive, and why is this significant?

8. What does Jane do when she discovers smoke coming from Mr. Rochester's room, and what does this signify?

9. What does Jane's first dinner with Mr. Rochester at Thornfield foreshadow?

10. What are the conditions like at Lowood, and what does it signify about the educational system?

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