Plot
Characters
History Behind Novel
Figurative Language
Quotations
100
How old was Jane when she left Gateshead Hall?
10 years old
100
How is Mary Rivers related to Jane Eyre?
First cousin
100
What was Charlotte Brontë's chosen pen name she wrote "Jane Eyre" under?
Currer Bell
100
What does the splitting of the horse-chestnut tree represent?
It acts as foreshadowing and symbolizes the breakup of Jane's marriage to Mr. Rochester.
100
Speaker of the following quote: "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
Jane Eyre
200
Who told Jane that the horse-chestnut tree had been struck by lightning during the night and had split in half?
Adèle Varens
200
How old is Mr. Rochester?
Close to forty
200
How did Charlotte Brontë express her imagination?
Through writing
200
What type of figurative language is the following: "Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day’s sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white."
Imagery
200
Speaker of the following quote: "You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it."
Edward Rochester
300
What is the name of the village where Jane teaches as a schoolmistress?
Morton
300
What was Miss Temple's position at Lowood Institution?
Superintendent
300
What was the reception of Jane Eyre at the time of its publication?
Considered a radical book that "deposed authority, violated human code, and fostered rebellion and Chartism"
300
What type of figurative language is the following: "Yes, you are dripping like a mermaid; pull my cloak round you..."
Simile
300
Speaker of the following quote: "It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.”
Helen Burns
400
What was the substitute meal given to the children at Lowood Institution after the porridge was burnt?
Bread and cheese
400
Where did Jane's rich uncle live?
Madeira
400
When was Jane Eyre first published?
1847
400
What type of figurative language is the following: "Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire..."
Personification
400
Speaker of the following quote: "“Mr. Brocklehurst, I believe I intimated in the letter which I wrote to you three weeks ago, that this little girl has not quite the character and disposition I could wish: should you admit her into Lowood school, I should be glad if the superintendent and teachers were requested to keep a strict eye on her, and, above all, to guard against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit."
Mrs. Reed
500
How long did Jane stay at the Moor House for before receiving a job offer?
Five weeks
500
What ethnicity is Bertha Mason?
Creole
500
What was Charlotte Brontë's typical female character like?
Simple women who relied upon the respect of themselves, rather than society, to provide fulfillment in their lives
500
What does the following allusion mean: "We feasted that evening as nectar and ambrosia."
The author uses satire to point out the decadence of the aristocracy.
500
Speaker of the following quote: “Very well; I hope you feel the content you express: at any rate, your good sense will tell you that it is too soon yet to yield to the vacillating fears of Lot’s wife. What you had left before I saw you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation which would incline you to look back: pursue your present career steadily, for some months at least.”
St. John
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