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Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë Biography

About Jane Eyre

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Chapter 1
Chapters 2–3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapters 6–7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapters 14–15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapters 18–19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapters 24–25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapters 28–29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38 — Conclusion

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Jane Eyre
Edward Fairfax Rochester
St. John Rivers

Critical Essays

A Marxist Approach to Jane Eyre
A Jungian Approach to Jane Eyre
A Postcolonial Approach to Jane Eyre

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1:  With whom does Jane live with at Gateshead at the beginning of the novel?

a. Her parents

b. Mr. Rochester

c. Mrs. Fairfax

d. Her aunt and cousins
2:  What is the name of the room at Gateshead where Jane is locked up and she passes out?

a. The red room

b. The maid’s room

c. The green room

d. The upstairs room
3:  Where is Jane sent after Gateshead?

a. The Cotswald Orphanage

b. Redding School

c. Lowood School

d. Chesterfield
4:  Who is Jane’s friend who dies in her arms?

a. Georgiana

b. Eliza

c. Helen

d. Alice
5:  What is Adèle Varens’ relationship to Edward Rochester?

a. She is his ward.

b. She is his daughter.

c. She is his niece.

d. She is his sister.
6:  How does Jane save Rochester from the fire?

a. By dragging him to safety

b. By waking him and helping him downstairs

c. By breaking a window

d. By dousing his bed with water
7:  Whom does Rochester blame the bizarre behavior on at Thornfield?

a. His manservant

b. Blanche Ingram

c. Grace Poole

d. Sarah Reed
8:  Where does Jane end up after she escapes Thornfield?

a. At the Lockhead estate

b. At the home of the Rivers family

c. In India

d. In London
9:  When Jane returns to Thornfield what does she find?

a. That it has been remodeled and is unrecognizable

b. That it has been sold to greedy neighbors

c. That it has burned

d. That it is for sale
10:  How has Rochester changed when he and Jane are reunited?

a. He has typhus.

b. He has gone insane.

c. He has a limp.

d. He has lost an eye and a hand.
11:  Who says the following: “I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh, to teach them to clothe themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel. . . . ”

a. John Reed

b. Mr. Rochester

c. Mr. Brocklehurt

d. St. John Rivers
12:  Who says the following: “I think you will be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you; and then your looks and movements will have more vivacity and variety than they dare offer now. I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”

a. Mr. Brocklehurt

b. St. John Rivers

c. Mr. Rochester

d. Richard Mason



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