Jane Eyre, Chapter XXXVIII--Conclusion quiz

Questions and answers

1. 1

   Question 1. What is the first line of Chapter 38?

   • "I have now been married ten years."
   • "We had a quiet wedding."
   • Correct answer: "Reader, I married him."
   • "My tale draws to its close."

   The chapter opens with Jane's famous announcement, "Reader, I married him." She then describes the quiet wedding that followed.

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2. 2

   Question 2. Who attends Jane and Rochester's wedding ceremony?

   • Correct answer: Only the parson and the clerk
   • The servants Mary and John
   • St. John Rivers and the parson
   • Diana, Mary, the parson, and the clerk

   Jane says that at their quiet wedding "he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present," so no family or friends attended.

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3. 3

   Question 3. What does Jane give the servants Mary and John after announcing her marriage?

   • A letter of recommendation
   • New clothing
   • A gold watch
   • Correct answer: A five-pound note

   Jane tells John that Mr. Rochester asked her to give him and Mary a gift, and she puts "into his hand a five-pound note."

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4. 4

   Question 4. Why does Jane remove Adèle from her first boarding school?

   • The school closes after its mistress dies unexpectedly
   • Correct answer: The rules are too strict and the studies too severe for her age
   • Rochester insists on Adèle's companionship at Ferndean
   • Adèle is expelled for wild and disobedient behavior

   Jane finds Adèle pale and unhappy because "the rules of the establishment were too strict, its course of study too severe for a child of her age."

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5. 5

   Question 5. How does Rochester begin to recover his sight?

   • His vision returns completely on the morning of their wedding
   • Jane administers a traditional herbal medicine
   • Correct answer: He notices the darkness in one eye becoming less dense
   • A London surgeon performs an operation on both eyes

   Rochester tells Jane he "had fancied the obscurity clouding one eye was becoming less dense," and a London oculist later helps restore that eye.

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   Question 6. What can Rochester see when his firstborn son is placed in his arms?

   • That the boy has inherited Jane's changeable green eyes
   • Correct answer: That the boy has inherited his own large, brilliant, and black eyes
   • That the boy has inherited his mother's delicate features
   • Nothing — he is still completely blind in both eyes

   When his first-born is put into his arms, Rochester can see that the boy has inherited his own eyes, "large, brilliant, and black."

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7. 7

   Question 7. Who does Diana Rivers marry?

   • Correct answer: Captain Fitzjames, a naval officer
   • Mr. Granby, heir to Sir Frederic Granby
   • She remains unmarried like St. John
   • Mr. Wharton, a country clergyman

   Jane says Diana's husband is "a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man," and she names him as Captain Fitzjames.

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   Question 8. Where does St. John Rivers go after leaving England?

   • Africa
   • France
   • America
   • Correct answer: India

   Jane reports that St. John "left England: he went to India," where he follows the hard path of missionary work he had chosen.

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

   • St. John Rivers writes back to congratulate Jane on her marriage to Rochester.

     Didn't happen

     St. John never answers the letter in which Jane communicates her marriage. Six months later he writes without mentioning Rochester's name or alluding to the marriage.

   • Jane describes being married for ten years at the time she writes her narrative.

     Happened

     Jane states, "I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth."

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    Question 10. What does the word "phlegmatic" mean as used in the chapter to describe the servants Mary and John?

    • Sickly and full of phlegm
    • Gloomy and melancholy
    • Hot-tempered and fiery
    • Correct answer: Calm and unexcitable

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    Question 11. What is an "oculist" as referenced when Rochester seeks medical advice in London?

    • Correct answer: An eye doctor
    • A surgeon specializing in hands
    • A general physician
    • A spiritual healer

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    Question 12. What does "indefatigable" mean in the description of St. John as "A more resolute, indefatigable pioneer"?

    • Easily exhausted
    • Impossible to define
    • Correct answer: Persisting tirelessly
    • Undefeatable in battle

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    Question 13. What biblical allusion does Jane use to describe her closeness to Rochester?

    • "Whither thou goest, I will go" from Ruth
    • Correct answer: "Bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh" from Genesis
    • "Charity suffereth long" from First Corinthians
    • "Many waters cannot quench love" from Solomon's Song

    Jane writes that no woman was nearer her mate, "ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh," echoing Adam's words in Genesis.

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    Question 14. What does Rochester acknowledge when he sees his son for the first time?

    • That Thornfield's destruction was justified
    • That St. John was a better man than he
    • That Jane was right to return to him
    • Correct answer: That God had tempered judgment with mercy

    Seeing his son's eyes, Rochester "with a full heart, acknowledged that God had tempered judgment with mercy" after years of blindness.

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