UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
"The marriage cannot go on: I declare the existence of an impediment." - CORRECT
ANSWER - Quote that breaks up Jane's wedding to Rochester...
Creole woman whom Rochester wed fifteen years earlier in Jamaica. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Bertha is...
> Rochester as higher ranked employer.
> Rochester as a handicapped patient.
> Rochester as old woman. - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane experienced several roles
Rochester played. Which?
(1) Richard Mason affirms that Rochester is married. to Bertha...
(2) He is brother to Bertha...
(3) He found out about the marriage plan from Uncle John in Madeira by coincidence... -
CORRECT ANSWER - Details that block Rochester's marriage to Jane
"In the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran backwards and forwards. What it
was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on
all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with
clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face." -
CORRECT ANSWER - Descriptions of Bertha the day Jane sets eyes on her...
(1) Plunges into an inexpressible grief.
(2) She prays to God to be with her.
(3) Refuses Rochester's opinion that he is free to marry again.
(4) Choose REASON and principle over PASSION---she still loves Rochester but cannot tolerate
facts and lack of communication
, (5) Secretly escapes Thornfield - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane's reaction and actions once
she discovers truth of Rochester's married status.
(1) Rochester would not have forced her to marry (he explains this one year later)...
(2) Bertha would have burned Jane in her bed.
Jane learns this after a year from the innkeeper. - CORRECT ANSWER - If Jane had not
run away from Thornfield...
TRUE - CORRECT ANSWER - TRUE / FALSE: Jane forgives Rochester for the wedding
- Bertha conflict the next day.
FALSE - CORRECT ANSWER - TRUE / FALSE: Jane loves St. John.
FALSE - CORRECT ANSWER - TRUE / FALSE: St. John loves Jane.
Riding in a coach, Jane exhausts her meager money supply and is forced to sleep outdoors. She
spends much of the night in prayer. The following day she begs for food, for a trade for food, and
for a job in the nearby town. No one helps her, except for one farmer who is willing to give her a
slice of bread. She experiences shame for wanting help and assumes people in the area will judge
her and have no reason to help. After another day, Jane -- who is near dying -- sees a light
shining from across the moors. Following it, she comes to a house, spies Mary and Diana Rivers
for the first time, is rejected by Hannah the servant at the door, but is approved by St. John --
who walks up in the middle of the conversation. - CORRECT ANSWER - Details of Jane's
"walk about" after she flees Thornfield...
JANE >> "And though," I continued, rather severely, "you wished to turn me from the door, on a
night when you should not have shut out a dog."
> "Well, it was hard: but what can a body do? I thought more o' th' childer nor of mysel: poor
things! They've like nobody to tak' care on 'em but me. I'm like to look sharpish."
JANE >> I maintained a grave silence for some minutes.
> "You munnut think too hardly of me," she again remarked.