SparkNotes: Jane Eyre: Quiz

1. What are the names of the servants who care for Rochester at Ferndean?

(A) John and Clara

(B) Reginald and Mrs. Fairfax

(C) Mrs. Fairfax and Grace Poole

(D) John and Mary

2. Which character is in love with Rosamond?

(A) St. John

(B) Rochester

(C) John Reed

(D) Mr. Mason

3. Who sets the fire in Rochester’s bedroom?

(A) Jane

(B) Bertha

(C) Mrs. Fairfax

(D) Grace Poole

4. What has just happened to Mr. Mason the first time we encounter him?

(A) He has fallen from the roof

(B) He has been injured

(C) He has been poisoned

(D) He has fallen in love

5. Which character is based on the Reverend Carus Wilson, a figure from Charlotte Brontë’s childhood?

(A) St. John Rivers

(B) Rochester

(C) Mr. Brocklehurst

(D) Mr. Lloyd

6. Who writes to St. John regarding Jane’s inheritance from John Eyre?

(A) Mr. Briggs

(B) Mr. Mason

(C) Mr. Brocklehurst

(D) Mrs. Reed

7. How does John Reed apparently die?

(A) He falls from the roof of Thornfield

(B) He is killed in a fire

(C) He has a stroke

(D) He commits suicide

8. Where did Rochester marry Bertha Mason?

(A) Jamaica

(B) Madeira

(C) St. Kitts

(D) Bermuda

9. Who first suggests that Jane be sent away to school?

(A) Mrs. Reed

(B) Mr. Brocklehurst

(C) Mr. Lloyd

(D) John Reed

10. What is the nationality of Jane’s pupil at Thornfield?

(A) Spanish

(B) German

(C) Jamaican

(D) French

11. What does Rochester lose in the fire at Thornfield?

(A) His hand and his eyesight

(B) His eyesight and his fortune

(C) His eyesight and his dog

(D) His fortune and his fiancée

12. Which teacher is kind to Jane at Lowood?

(A) Mrs. Scatcherd

(B) Miss Temple

(C) Mr. Brocklehurst

(D) Miss Ames

13. What does the kind teacher give Jane and Helen to eat?

(A) Bundt cake

(B) Strawberries

(C) Cookies

(D) Seed cake

14. How does Jane earn a living after leaving Thornfield?

(A) She paints

(B) She writes and sells short stories

(C) She becomes a governess at a different manor house

(D) St. John Rivers finds her a teaching job in the town of Morton

15. With whom does Jane believe Rochester is in love for most of her time at Thornfield?

(A) Herself

(B) Blanche Ingram

(C) Georgianna Reed

(D) Celine Varens

16. What does Jane do with the inheritance she receives from her uncle John Eyre?

(A) She divides it equally among her cousins the Rivers

(B) She starts a school in the town of Morton

(C) She sends it to Gateshead to comfort the Reeds for the death of their mother

(D) She buys ball gowns and jewelry for herself

17. What is the nature of Jane’s first encounter with Rochester?

(A) Rochester comes to Lowood to enroll Adèle there, but Jane warns him about the coldness and isolation at Lowood and recommends that he hire her as Adèle’s live-in governess instead

(B) After having been abroad for some time, Rochester returns to Thornfield and sends for Jane to come to him in his library

(C) Jane and Rochester were long lost childhood sweethearts

(D) Jane helps a stranger whose horse has slipped on some ice; she discovers later that the man was Rochester

18. What does Mr. Brocklehurst do to one of Jane’s classmates to rid her of her “vanity”?

(A) He makes her wear a dunce cap

(B) He has her naturally curly hair cut short so as to make it lie straight

(C) He forces her to write “I am a very silly girl” on the chalkboard 100 tim

(D) esHe puts a curtain over her bedroom mirror

19. How does Jane’s Aunt Reed punish her for fighting with her bullying cousin John?

(A) She makes her sleep outside in the cold

(B) She makes her eat only burnt porridge

(C) She makes her shine John’s shoes for a week

(D) She locks her in the red-room

20. To which destination does St. John Rivers want Jane to accompany him as his wife and fellow missionary?

(A) India

(B) China

(C) The Congo

(D) Ireland

21. What is the name of the Riverses’ servant?

(A) Alice

(B) Bertha

(C) Hannah

(D) Persephone

22. What does Jane do immediately after finishing her studies at Lowood?

(A) She answers an advertisement for a governess at Thornfield

(B) She becomes a teacher there

(C) She burns down the building

(D) She is forced to wander penniless and starving across the moors

23. Who wears the disguise of a gypsy woman?

(A) Blanche Ingram

(B) Rochester

(C) Lady Ingram

(D) Lady Bartholomew

24. What happens within the first ten years of Jane and Rochester’s marriage?

(A) A daughter is born

(B) A son is born

(C) A star is born

(D) None of the above

25. What is the subject of the book Jane is reading at the beginning of the novel?

(A) Fish

(B) British royalty

(C) Fairies and knights

(D) Birds