Jane Eyre Test UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Author's Full Name - CORRECT ANSWER - Charlotte Brontë
Genre - CORRECT ANSWER - Victorian novel. Jane Eyre combines Gothic mystery, a
romantic marriage plot, and a coming-of-age story.
Author's Pen Name - CORRECT ANSWER - Currer Bell, the "editor"
Setting - CORRECT ANSWER - Northern England in the early 1800s.
Author's Date of Birth - CORRECT ANSWER - 1816
Antagonists - CORRECT ANSWER - Mrs. Reed
Point of View - CORRECT ANSWER - First person. Jane recounts her story ten years
after its ending.
Protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane Eyre
When Written - CORRECT ANSWER - 1847
Literary Period - CORRECT ANSWER - Victorian
You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, mama says; you have no money;
your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like
us. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 1
•Speaker: John Reed
,•Mentioned or related: Jane Eyre
Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored
the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: ... the
strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and
glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit. - CORRECT
ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 2
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn
to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor
women I saw sometimes nursing their children or washing their clothes at the cottage doors of
the village of Gateshead: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. -
CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 3
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of
freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had
struggled out into unhoped-for liberty. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 4
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
I hold another creed: ... it makes Eternity a rest—a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. ...
with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me,
injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end. - CORRECT
ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 6
•Speaker: Helen Burns
I resolved, in the depth of my heart, that I would be most moderate ... I told her all the story of
my sad childhood. Exhausted by emotion, my language was more subdued than it generally was
when it developed that sad theme; and mindful of Helen's warnings against the indulgence of
resentment, I infused into the narrative far less of gall and wormwood than ordinary. Thus
restrained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as I went on that Miss Temple fully
believed me. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 8
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
, •Mentioned or related: Maria Temple, Helen Burns
The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or,
perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within
her ... [Helen] suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's—a beauty
neither of fine color nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of
radiance. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 8
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
•Mentioned or related: Maria Temple, Helen Burns
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for
liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it
and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off
into vague space: "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!" -
CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 10
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my
ear. It was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless. I stopped: the sound ceased, only for an
instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a
clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber; though it originated but in
one, and I could have pointed out the door whence the accents issued. - CORRECT
ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 11
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
•Mentioned or related: Bertha Mason
I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads,
looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line—that then I longed for a
power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns,
regions full of life I had heard of but never seen—that then I desired more of practical experience
than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character,
than was here within my reach. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 12
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
and CORRECT Answers
Author's Full Name - CORRECT ANSWER - Charlotte Brontë
Genre - CORRECT ANSWER - Victorian novel. Jane Eyre combines Gothic mystery, a
romantic marriage plot, and a coming-of-age story.
Author's Pen Name - CORRECT ANSWER - Currer Bell, the "editor"
Setting - CORRECT ANSWER - Northern England in the early 1800s.
Author's Date of Birth - CORRECT ANSWER - 1816
Antagonists - CORRECT ANSWER - Mrs. Reed
Point of View - CORRECT ANSWER - First person. Jane recounts her story ten years
after its ending.
Protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane Eyre
When Written - CORRECT ANSWER - 1847
Literary Period - CORRECT ANSWER - Victorian
You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, mama says; you have no money;
your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like
us. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 1
•Speaker: John Reed
,•Mentioned or related: Jane Eyre
Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored
the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: ... the
strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and
glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit. - CORRECT
ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 2
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
I shook my head: I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn
to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor
women I saw sometimes nursing their children or washing their clothes at the cottage doors of
the village of Gateshead: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. -
CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 3
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of
freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had
struggled out into unhoped-for liberty. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 4
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
I hold another creed: ... it makes Eternity a rest—a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. ...
with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me,
injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end. - CORRECT
ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 6
•Speaker: Helen Burns
I resolved, in the depth of my heart, that I would be most moderate ... I told her all the story of
my sad childhood. Exhausted by emotion, my language was more subdued than it generally was
when it developed that sad theme; and mindful of Helen's warnings against the indulgence of
resentment, I infused into the narrative far less of gall and wormwood than ordinary. Thus
restrained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as I went on that Miss Temple fully
believed me. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 8
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
, •Mentioned or related: Maria Temple, Helen Burns
The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or,
perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within
her ... [Helen] suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's—a beauty
neither of fine color nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of
radiance. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 8
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
•Mentioned or related: Maria Temple, Helen Burns
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for
liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it
and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off
into vague space: "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!" -
CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 10
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my
ear. It was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless. I stopped: the sound ceased, only for an
instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a
clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber; though it originated but in
one, and I could have pointed out the door whence the accents issued. - CORRECT
ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 11
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
•Mentioned or related: Bertha Mason
I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads,
looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line—that then I longed for a
power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns,
regions full of life I had heard of but never seen—that then I desired more of practical experience
than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character,
than was here within my reach. - CORRECT ANSWER - •Location: Chapter 12
•Speaker: Jane Eyre
