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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. After the disease abates at Lowood, what discovery is made that is mortifying to Mr. Brocklehurst?
(a) The discovery of abducted children and slave wages at the school.
(b) The discovery of the ill-treatment and poor conditions at the school.
(c) The discovery of missing funds and abusive teachers at the school.
(d) The discovery of scandalous behavior and excessive opulence at the school.

2. Why does Mrs. Reed forbid Jane from joining her, Eliza, John, and Georgiana in the drawing-room?
(a) Because she feels Jane does not have a sociable and childlike disposition.
(b) Because her children have complained that Jane is getting all the attention.
(c) Because she feels Jane is contagious and does not want her children to get sick.
(d) Because she feels Jane has too much of a sociable and childlike disposition.

3. 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 smallest girls need the food.
(c) Because the older girls menace them into doing so.
(d) Because the teachers tell them to do so.

4. 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) John.
(b) Mr. Reed.
(c) Mrs. Reed.
(d) Bessie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Jane, who bullies and punishes her "not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually?"

2. What does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of being after making her sit on a stool in front of the class?

3. 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!"?

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

5. How does Miss Temple respond to Jane's defense of her character in light of Mr. Brocklehurst's accusation?

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