Jane Eyre, Chapter XXVII quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. Where does Jane find Rochester when she finally opens her chamber door?

   • Pacing restlessly from wall to wall in his chamber
   • At the foot of the stairs, as on the wedding morning
   • Correct answer: Sitting in a chair across her chamber threshold
   • Waiting in the library beside the fire

   When Jane stumbles out of her room, an arm catches her: Rochester "sat in a chair across my chamber threshold," waiting and listening for her.

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   Question 2. Why did Rochester's father arrange his marriage to Bertha Mason?

   • Correct answer: To keep the family estate intact by securing a wealthy bride for his younger son
   • To settle a longstanding debt owed to his old acquaintance Mr. Mason
   • To help his younger son establish a profitable plantation in Jamaica
   • To unite two ancient English families and their neighbouring estates

   His father would not divide the estate, so all went to Rowland; to keep his younger son from poverty, Rochester "must be provided for by a wealthy marriage."

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   Question 3. How much was Bertha Mason's fortune?

   • Fifty thousand pounds
   • Ten thousand pounds
   • Twenty thousand pounds
   • Correct answer: Thirty thousand pounds

   Rochester learned that Mr. Mason "could and would give the latter a fortune of thirty thousand pounds," and he says that sum alone "sufficed" for his father.

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   Question 4. What stopped Rochester from shooting himself on the stormy night in Jamaica?

   • He discovered that the pistols in the trunk were unloaded
   • Correct answer: A fresh wind from Europe blew in and the storm cleared, bringing him clarity
   • He received a letter from his brother Rowland calling him home to England
   • A frightened servant discovered him kneeling beside the loaded pistols

   As he knelt by the pistols, "A wind fresh from Europe blew over the ocean," the storm broke, "the air grew pure," and he fixed a resolution to live again.

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   Question 5. Where does Rochester propose he and Jane live together?

   • Lodgings in Paris, where he spent most of his years abroad
   • A house in Jamaica, among the orange-trees of his old garden
   • Ferndean Manor, his old house hidden deep in a wood
   • Correct answer: A villa on the shores of the Mediterranean in the south of France

   Rochester offers Jane "a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean," a place he owns in the south of France, where she would live as his wife.

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   Question 6. What does the maternal spirit say to Jane in her dream?

   • "Trust your heart above all else."
   • "Return to Gateshead, my child."
   • Correct answer: "My daughter, flee temptation."
   • "Stay with him, for he needs you."

   In her dream a white human form bends toward Jane and whispers in her heart, "My daughter, flee temptation," and she answers, "Mother, I will."

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   Question 7. How much money does Jane have when she leaves Thornfield?

   • Correct answer: Twenty shillings
   • Thirty shillings
   • Five pounds
   • Ten shillings

   Jane takes her purse "containing twenty shillings (it was all I had)," and later the coachman, who asks thirty, agrees to make twenty do.

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   Question 8. What property does Rochester mention as an alternative to Thornfield for housing Bertha?

   • Gateshead Hall
   • Correct answer: Ferndean Manor
   • Lowood House
   • Millcote Manor

   Rochester says he owns "an old house, Ferndean Manor," more hidden than Thornfield, but its damp, unhealthy place in a wood made him reject lodging Bertha there.

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

   • Jane tells Rochester aloud that she forgives him.

     Didn't happen

     Jane forgives Rochester inwardly and immediately, but she does not express it in words or outwardly—only "at my heart's core."

   • Rochester physically seizes Jane during their argument but then releases her after seeing the resolve in her eyes.

     Happened

     Rochester crosses the floor, seizes Jane's arm and grasps her waist, but upon seeing the "resolute, wild, free thing looking out" of her eye, he recognizes he cannot possess her spirit and releases her.

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    Question 10. In the chapter, "inanition" most closely means:

    • Physical illness or disease
    • Inactivity; absence of motion
    • Correct answer: Exhaustion from lack of food
    • Absurdity; senseless foolishness

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    Question 11. When Rochester describes his father as "avaricious," he means his father was:

    • Tyrannical and violent
    • Correct answer: Extremely greedy for wealth
    • Indifferent and neglectful
    • Ambitious for political power

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    Question 12. The word "indomitable" as used to describe Jane's reply means:

    • Full of anger and bitterness
    • Hesitant and easily persuaded
    • Domestic; belonging to the household
    • Correct answer: Impossible to subdue or defeat

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