Jane Eyre final exam study UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Jane Eyre final exam study UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Jane Eyre - CORRECT ANSWER - main character



Edward Rochester - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane's employer and the master of Thornfield,
Rochester is a wealthy, passionate man with a dark secret that provides much of the novel's
suspense. He and Jane fall in love.


St. John - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane's cousin; missionary



Mr. & Mrs. Reed - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane's caretakers for the first years of her life.
They are cruel to her. They own Gateshead. They call Jane a liar.


Bessie - CORRECT ANSWER - Servant at Gateshead; Jane's kind nanny



Mr. Lloyd - CORRECT ANSWER - Mr. Lloyd is the Reeds' apothecary, who suggests that
Jane be sent away to school. Always kind to Jane, Mr. Lloyd writes a letter to Miss Temple
confirming Jane's story about her childhood and clearing Jane of Mrs. Reed's charge that she is a
liar.


Georgiana and Eliza Reed - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane's cruel siblings at Gateshead.



John Reed - CORRECT ANSWER - John Reed is Jane's cousin, Mrs. Reed's son, and
brother to Eliza and Georgiana. John treats Jane with appalling cruelty during their childhood
and later falls into a life of drinking and gambling. John commits suicide midway through the
novel when his mother ceases to pay his debts for him.


Helens Burns - CORRECT ANSWER - An almost saint like friend of Jane's at the school
who dies of illness.

, Mr. Brocklehurst - CORRECT ANSWER - The cruel, hypocritical master of the Lowood
School. After a typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, Brocklehurst's shifty and dishonest practices
are brought to light and he is publicly discredited.


Maria Temple - CORRECT ANSWER - is a kind teacher at Lowood, who treats Jane and
Helen with respect and compassion


Miss Scatcherd - CORRECT ANSWER - Jane's sour and vicious teacher at Lowood, Miss
Scatcherd behaves with particular cruelty toward Helen.


Bertha Mason - CORRECT ANSWER - Rochester's secret wife, ultimately revealed as the
insane woman in the attic.


Alice Fairfax - CORRECT ANSWER - the housekeeper at Thornfield Hall. She is the first
to tell Jane that the mysterious laughter often heard echoing through the halls is, in fact, the
laughter of Grace Poole—a lie that Rochester himself often repeats.


Grace Poole - CORRECT ANSWER - Grace Poole is Bertha Mason's keeper at
Thornfield, whose drunken carelessness frequently allows Bertha to escape. When Jane first
arrives at Thornfield, Mrs. Fairfax attributes to Grace all evidence of Bertha's misdeeds.


Adele - CORRECT ANSWER - Mr. Rochester's ward and his supposed illegitimate child



Celine Varens - CORRECT ANSWER - French opera dancer with whom Rochester once
had an affair. She left Adele and Rochester took her.


Sophie - CORRECT ANSWER - Adele's French nurse at Thornfield



Richard Mason - CORRECT ANSWER - Richard Mason is Bertha's brother. During a visit
to Thornfield, he is injured by his mad sister. After learning of Rochester's intent to marry Jane,
Mason arrives with the solicitor Briggs in order to thwart the wedding and reveal the truth of
Rochester's prior marriage.