Jane Eyre, Chapter XIX quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. Where is the gypsy fortune-teller seated when Jane enters?

   • In the hallway near the front door
   • In the drawing room on a sofa
   • Correct answer: In the library by the chimney-corner
   • In the dining room at the head of the table

   The chapter opens with Jane entering the library, where the gypsy is seated "snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-corner."

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   Question 2. What does the gypsy claim to read after rejecting Jane's palm?

   • The little black prayer-book she reads by firelight
   • Tea leaves remaining in Jane's empty teacup
   • Patterns in the glowing embers of the fire
   • Correct answer: Jane's facial features (forehead, eyes, mouth)

   The gypsy says the palm is "too fine" and that "destiny is not written there," declaring instead: "it is in the face: on the forehead, about the eyes, in the lines of the mouth."

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   Question 3. According to the gypsy, why is Jane "cold"?

   • Correct answer: Because she is alone and no contact strikes the fire within her
   • Because she has no faith in the fortune-teller's art
   • Because the best of feelings keeps far away from her
   • Because she sat far from the drawing-room fire

   The gypsy explains: "You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you."

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   Question 4. What does the gypsy say she told Blanche Ingram that changed her demeanor?

   • That Rochester was secretly married to another woman
   • Correct answer: Something about Rochester's fortune that made her look grave
   • That Rochester loved the governess and not her
   • That a suitor with a longer rent-roll would soon come

   The gypsy says: "I told her something on that point about an hour ago which made her look wondrous grave: the corners of her mouth fell half an inch."

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   Question 5. What physical detail allows Jane to recognize Rochester beneath the disguise?

   • Correct answer: A broad ring with a familiar gem on his hand
   • A familiar scar beneath the white bandage
   • Pilot lying beside the gypsy's easy-chair
   • His tall figure rising from the easy-chair

   Jane notices "a broad ring flashed on the little finger" with "a gem I had seen a hundred times before," which leads her to look at the face and recognize Rochester.

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   Question 6. What literary work does Rochester quote when removing his disguise?

   • The Tempest by Shakespeare
   • Hamlet by Shakespeare
   • Correct answer: King Lear by Shakespeare
   • Paradise Lost by Milton

   Rochester quotes "Off, ye lendings!" from King Lear, a line Lear speaks when stripping off his clothes to confront human nature stripped of social pretense.

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   Question 7. Where does Richard Mason come from?

   • Port of Spain, Trinidad
   • Correct answer: Spanish Town, Jamaica
   • Madeira, Portugal
   • London, England

   Jane tells Rochester: "His name is Mason, sir; and he comes from the West Indies; from Spanish Town, in Jamaica, I think."

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   Question 8. What does Jane say she would do if society turned against Rochester?

   • Write to her aunt Reed for advice
   • Seek help from Mr. Brocklehurst
   • Leave Thornfield immediately
   • Correct answer: Stay with him and comfort him

   Jane declares she would have "more pleasure in staying with you" and could "dare censure" for the sake of any friend who deserved her adherence.

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

   • The gypsy successfully read Jane's palm and made predictions from it.

     Didn't happen

     The gypsy attempted palm reading but rejected it, saying Jane's hand was "too fine" and "almost without lines," then switched to reading her face instead.

   • Rochester asked Jane to fetch him a glass of wine from the dining room after revealing Mason's arrival upset him.

     Happened

     After his distressed reaction to Mason's name, Rochester asks Jane: "Fetch me now, Jane, a glass of wine from the dining-room." Jane goes, fills a glass, and returns it to him.

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    Question 10. What does "diablerie" mean as used in the chapter when Jane thinks, "there is diablerie in the business after all"?

    • Holiness or devout, saintly goodness
    • Correct answer: Sorcery or dealings with the devil
    • Confusion or utter bewilderment
    • Elegance or graceful refinement

    Diablerie means sorcery, witchcraft, or devilry. Jane uses it to express her suspicion that there is something genuinely supernatural or sinister about the fortune-teller's knowledge.

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    Question 11. What does "propitious" mean when the gypsy says "That feature too is propitious"?

    • Correct answer: Favorable or indicating success
    • Mysterious or unknowable
    • Unfavorable or warning of failure
    • Proper, correct, and well-mannered

    Propitious means favorable or auspicious—indicating a good chance of success. The gypsy is saying that Jane's mouth, like her eyes, is a feature that bodes well for her future happiness.

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    Question 12. In the phrase "a speaking automaton to enounce its single words," what does "automaton" mean?

    • A ruler holding unlimited power, answerable to no one else
    • A self-taught scholar who learned without a teacher
    • A trained actor who recites memorized speeches
    • Correct answer: A machine that operates mechanically without human thought

    An automaton is a self-operating machine or, figuratively, a person acting mechanically without feeling. Rochester repeats "Mason!--the West Indies!" as if he were a machine, stunned beyond normal human expression.

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