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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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What does Jane struggle with throughout Jane Eyre?
The balance between obligation and happiness
The practice of self-negation that Helen taught her
The legacy that Mrs. Reed left her with
Her desire to get revenge on those who wronged her
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What enables Jane to finally view herself as Rochester's equal?
Her intellectual prowess
Her incomparable beauty
Her caring nature
Her recent inheritance
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Whom is fire symbolically associated with in the novel?
Rochester
St. John
Jane
Helen
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What does Jane find comfort in after her first wedding to Rochester?
God
The moon
Alcohol
The forest
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What feeling leads Jane to think of the "red-room" of her childhood?
Love
Ridicule
Detachment
Loneliness
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