ENGLISH FINAL EXAM JANE EYRE
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Jane Eyre - ✔✔protagonist and narrator of the novel; forced to contend with
oppression, inequality, and hardship; maintains her principles of justice, human
dignity, and morality; values intellectual and emotional fulfillment; her strong belief in
gender and social equality challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the
poor
Edward Rochester - ✔✔Jane's employer and the master of Thornfield; unconventional,
ready to set aside polite manners, propriety, and consideration of social class in order to
interact with Jane frankly and directly; rash and impetuous; spent much of his adult life
roaming about Europe in an attempt to avoid the consequences of his youthful
indiscretions; sympathetic figure because he has suffered for so long
St. John Rivers - ✔✔serves as Jane's benefactor after she runs away from Thornfield,
giving her food and shelter; minister at Morton; cold, reserved, and controlling;
alienated from his feelings; devoted solely to his ambition
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, Mrs. Reed - ✔✔Jane's cruel aunt; raises her at Gateshead; old woman who continues to
resent Jane because her husband had always loved Jane more than his own children
Bessie Lee - ✔✔maid at Gateshead; only figure in Jane's childhood who regularly treats
her kindly; marries Robert Leaven
Mr. Lloyd - ✔✔Reed's apothecary; suggests that Jane be sent away to school; clears Jane
of Mrs. Reed's charge that she is a liar
Georgiana Reed - ✔✔Jane's cousin; one of Mrs. Reed's two daughters; very beautiful;
treats Jane cruelly when they are children but later befriends her; attempts to elope but
is sabotaged by her sister Eliza; eventually marries a wealthy man
Eliza Reed - ✔✔Jane's cousin; one of Mrs. Reed's two daughters; devotes herself
somewhat to the church; goes to a convent in France where she becomes the Mother
Superior
John Reed - ✔✔Jane's cousin, Mrs. Reed's son, brother to Eliza and Georgiana; treats
Jane with appalling cruelty during their childhood; falls into a life of drinking and
gambling; commits suicide midway through the novel when his mother ceases to pay
his debts for him
Helen Burns - ✔✔Jane's close friend at Lowood school; endures her miserable life there
with a passive dignity that Jane cannot understand; dies of consumption in Jane's arms
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
Jane Eyre - ✔✔protagonist and narrator of the novel; forced to contend with
oppression, inequality, and hardship; maintains her principles of justice, human
dignity, and morality; values intellectual and emotional fulfillment; her strong belief in
gender and social equality challenges the Victorian prejudices against women and the
poor
Edward Rochester - ✔✔Jane's employer and the master of Thornfield; unconventional,
ready to set aside polite manners, propriety, and consideration of social class in order to
interact with Jane frankly and directly; rash and impetuous; spent much of his adult life
roaming about Europe in an attempt to avoid the consequences of his youthful
indiscretions; sympathetic figure because he has suffered for so long
St. John Rivers - ✔✔serves as Jane's benefactor after she runs away from Thornfield,
giving her food and shelter; minister at Morton; cold, reserved, and controlling;
alienated from his feelings; devoted solely to his ambition
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, Mrs. Reed - ✔✔Jane's cruel aunt; raises her at Gateshead; old woman who continues to
resent Jane because her husband had always loved Jane more than his own children
Bessie Lee - ✔✔maid at Gateshead; only figure in Jane's childhood who regularly treats
her kindly; marries Robert Leaven
Mr. Lloyd - ✔✔Reed's apothecary; suggests that Jane be sent away to school; clears Jane
of Mrs. Reed's charge that she is a liar
Georgiana Reed - ✔✔Jane's cousin; one of Mrs. Reed's two daughters; very beautiful;
treats Jane cruelly when they are children but later befriends her; attempts to elope but
is sabotaged by her sister Eliza; eventually marries a wealthy man
Eliza Reed - ✔✔Jane's cousin; one of Mrs. Reed's two daughters; devotes herself
somewhat to the church; goes to a convent in France where she becomes the Mother
Superior
John Reed - ✔✔Jane's cousin, Mrs. Reed's son, brother to Eliza and Georgiana; treats
Jane with appalling cruelty during their childhood; falls into a life of drinking and
gambling; commits suicide midway through the novel when his mother ceases to pay
his debts for him
Helen Burns - ✔✔Jane's close friend at Lowood school; endures her miserable life there
with a passive dignity that Jane cannot understand; dies of consumption in Jane's arms
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