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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mr. Rochester is in Leah's, what "sickening sense" does Jane feel regarding his absence?

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

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

4. What does Mr. Rochester forbid Mr. Mason and Jane to do before he departs?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. From what do the girls at Lowood suffer when Spring arrives, and how is this significant?

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

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

4. Why is Jane forbidden to sit with Mrs. Reed and the children, and how is this significant?

5. What happens to Mr. Mason during his first night at Thornfield, and why is this significant?

6. How is Mr. Rochester's response to Jane's homecoming from Gateshead revealing?

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

8. When Rochester returns with Blanche and a large party, how do they treat Jane, and why is this significant?

9. Why does Jane stay at Gateshead after Mrs. Reed passes, and why is this significant?

10. What appeared in a dream that Bessie once had that was a bad omen, and what does this foreshadow in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss "Jane Eyre" as a Gothic novel.

1) What role does the supernatural play in the novel?

2) How does psychological terror drive the plot?

3) How does mistaken identity function?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of class in the novel.

1) How does class function in the novel?

2) How does Jane's class position shift throughout the novel?

3) What are the determining factors that make up a person's class position?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss passion as a major theme in the novel.

1) Identify how the various types of passion (i.e., sexual, spiritual, and emotional,) work in the novel.

2) What kind of passion is privileged by Jane? Mr. Rochester? St. John? Why?

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