Jane Eyre, Chapter III quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. Who attends to Jane after her collapse in the red-room?

   • Mrs. Reed herself
   • The housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax
   • A physician hired by Mrs. Reed
   • Correct answer: Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary

   Mrs. Reed calls in Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary she uses for the servants, rather than the physician she employs for her own family.

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   Question 2. Why does Jane feel a sense of relief when she realizes Mr. Lloyd is present?

   • He is the family physician Mrs. Reed employs for herself and her children
   • Correct answer: He is a stranger not belonging to Gateshead or related to Mrs. Reed
   • He promises to send her away to school as soon as she is well
   • He brings medicine to relieve the injury to her head

   Jane feels "an inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security" because Mr. Lloyd is an outsider unconnected to the hostile Reed household.

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   Question 3. What book does Bessie bring Jane to comfort her?

   • Correct answer: Gulliver's Travels
   • Arabian Nights
   • Robinson Crusoe
   • Pilgrim's Progress

   Bessie brings Gulliver's Travels, which Jane had previously "perused with delight," but in her current state the illustrations appear sinister and frightening.

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   Question 4. What reason does Jane give Mr. Lloyd for her unhappiness?

   • Injuries from her fall have left her physically ill
   • She was disappointed at missing the carriage outing with her cousins
   • Correct answer: She is miserable and has no parents, brothers, or sisters
   • She is terrified by the ghost stories Bessie and Sarah whispered

   When asked why she is crying, Jane says directly, "I cry because I am miserable," and tells Mr. Lloyd she has no family of her own.

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   Question 5. Why does Jane reject the idea of living with poor relatives?

   • She would miss the company of her affectionate aunt and cousins
   • She is afraid of leaving Gateshead, her only familiar home
   • Correct answer: She associates poverty with degradation and loss of social standing
   • Mrs. Reed has forbidden her from contacting the Eyre family

   Jane reflects that "poverty for me was synonymous with degradation" and she was "not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste."

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   Question 6. How did Jane's parents die?

   • In a carriage accident while traveling
   • Correct answer: Of typhus fever within a month of each other
   • Her father died in war and her mother of grief
   • Of consumption contracted during a harsh winter

   Jane's father caught typhus while visiting the poor in a manufacturing town, and her mother contracted the infection from him. Both died within a month.

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   Question 7. What does Jane think Abbot gave her credit for being?

   • Correct answer: An infantine Guy Fawkes
   • A revolted rebel slave
   • A Roman emperor like Nero
   • A half-fairy, half-imp

   Jane says Abbot gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes — always watching everybody and scheming plots underhand.

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   Question 8. What is the subject of Bessie's doleful ballad in Chapter III?

   • Happy days when the singer went gipsying long ago
   • Elves departing England for a savage country
   • Ghostly lights appearing over a churchyard grave
   • Correct answer: A poor orphan child wandering through wild mountains

   Bessie sings about a poor orphan child whose feet are sore and whose path leads through wild moors and grey rocks, with only God's protection for comfort.

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   Question 9. Which of these events actually happened in this chapter?

   • Jane eats the tart that Bessie brings her on the prized china plate.

     Didn't happen

     Jane cannot eat the tart. She describes it as a "Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!" and puts both plate and tart away.

   • Mr. Lloyd speaks privately with Mrs. Reed before leaving Gateshead.

     Happened

     Bessie invites Mr. Lloyd to walk into the breakfast-room to speak with Mrs. Reed. Jane presumes from later events that he recommended she be sent to school.

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    Question 10. In the sentence "it only gave my nerves a shock of which I feel the reverberation to this day," what does "reverberation" most nearly mean?

    • An echoing sound repeated in a hollow space
    • Correct answer: A lingering aftereffect or repercussion
    • A physical trembling or vibration of the body
    • A momentary shock that quickly fades

    Reverberation here means a continuing effect or echo of the original trauma, suggesting the red-room experience had a lasting psychological impact on Jane.

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    Question 11. When Jane says she "bunglingly enounced" her complaint, what does "enounced" mean?

    • Condemned or accused openly
    • Concealed or kept silent
    • Abandoned or gave up
    • Correct answer: Pronounced or articulated

    To enounce means to pronounce or state formally. Jane clumsily articulated her grievance about John Reed knocking her down and being shut in the red-room.

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    Question 12. What does "emulation" mean in the sentence "my spirit was moved to emulation as I listened"?

    • Correct answer: The desire to equal or surpass others
    • Calm acceptance of one's own place
    • A feeling of great joy and elation
    • Bitter envy and resentment of others

    Emulation means the ambition to match or exceed the achievements of others. Jane is inspired to want the same accomplishments — painting, singing, French — that other schoolgirls have attained.

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