Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Bessie - CORRECT ANSWER - Nurse/maid at Gateshead and the only sympathetic on to
Jane
Miss Scratcherd - CORRECT ANSWER - Cruel teacher at Lowood who single out the
girls that she dislikes
Red room - CORRECT ANSWER - Room Jane's uncle died in and where she is locked in
as punishment
Helen Burns - CORRECT ANSWER - One of Jane's only friends at Lowood, she's devoted
to her faith and says she is happy to go when on her deathbed. She looks as if she were thinking
of something beyond her punishment.. her sight seemed turned in gone into her heart
Mr. Brocklehurst - CORRECT ANSWER - runs Lowood and is the reason for the harsh
conditions. "A black pillar! straight and narrow, stable clad shape standing erect on the rg: the
grim face at the top was like a carved mask"
John Reed - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane's unruly, hateful cousin that she lives with at
Gateshead. "A schoolboy of fourteen...large and stout for his age, with dingy and unwholesome
skin... heavy limbs....a dim bleared eye and flabby cheeks"
Miss Temple - CORRECT ANSWER - Teacher at Lowood who takes pity on Jane and
investigates her claims of abuse at Gateshead
Currer Bell - CORRECT ANSWER - Name Bronte originally published her work under
themes - CORRECT ANSWER - Supernatural, society, ethics,marriage, otherness, home