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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom does Blanche treat with coldness and acrimony?
(a) Mr. Rochester.
(b) Amy.
(c) Adele.
(d) Mrs. Eshton.

3. According to the gypsy, what is within Jane's reach?
(a) Power.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Children.

4. What does Jane first eat at Lowood that is disgusting, but is devoured out of hunger?
(a) Grainy soup.
(b) Cold gruel.
(c) Rancid meat.
(d) Burned porridge.

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

6. Who orders a lunch of bread and cheese after learning of the girls' inedible breakfast?
(a) Miss Scatcherd.
(b) Miss Temple.
(c) Miss Smith.
(d) Miss Miller.

7. When May arrives at Lowood, what is the "fog-bred pestilence" that arrives to transform the school into a hospital?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Polio.
(d) Cholera.

8. 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) Dinner-hour.
(c) Final-hour.
(d) Breakfast-hour.

9. After Mrs. Reed's funeral, where does Eliza tell Jane she is taking up residence?
(a) A Spanish hospital.
(b) An Italian school.
(c) A French convent.
(d) An English estate.

10. What is inscribed on Helen's grave besides her name?
(a) Redivivus.
(b) Religious loci.
(c) Resurgam.
(d) Regnat populace.

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

12. How old is Jane when the novel opens?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Seven.

13. When Mr. Rochester gives Adele her gift, he tells Jane that he is not fond of what?
(a) The dishonesty of servants.
(b) The prattle of children.
(c) The moodiness of children.
(d) The absence of adults.

14. To whom is Blanche referring when she tells Mr. Rochester that "half of them detestable, and the rest ridiculous"?
(a) Servants.
(b) Governesses.
(c) Mistresses.
(d) Handmaidens.

15. What hope does Jane cherish that she has "no right to conceive"?
(a) That her position as governess will continue.
(b) That she will be allowed to take leave of Thornfield.
(c) That she has inherited money from a relative.
(d) That Mr. Rochester's marriage to Blanche Ingram is off.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Rochester ask Jane regarding his appearance?

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

3. According to Jane, she tells Mr. Rochester a wanderer's repose and sinner's reformation do NOT depend on what?

4. According to Jane, women are supposed to be generally calm, but they feel what?

5. Why are Jane and other girls forced to part with their portion of food at Lowood during the cold winter months?

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