Jane Eyre Study Guide Questions Flashcard Example #85446

Jane lives at Gateshead hall with her aunt through marriage, Mrs. Reed, and her three cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana

Jane is an orphan. She is treated very cruelly by Mrs. Reed and her children.

Mrs. Reed will not let Jane sit with the family.

Jane is sitting on a window seat in the breakfast room.

John throws a book at Jane, causing her head to bleed.

Jane hits John back and screams that he is “a wicked and cruel boy.”

Mrs. Reed ejects Jane from the family circle, banishes her to the Red Room, and refuses to let her out when she sobs.

Jane reacts by working herself into a fit.

The Red Room is the room where Jane’s uncle, Mr. Reed, has died. Jane also sees a light on the ceiling.

Both Bessie and Miss Abbot discuss Jane’s plainness, and Jane compares herself unfavorably to her beautiful cousin Georgiana.

Jane continues to be excluded from the family’s activities even during the Christmas holiday season.

Mr. Brocklehurst admonishes Jane for being naughty and reminds her that the wicked go to hell.

Mrs. Reed tells Mr. Brocklehurst that Jane has a tendency to deceit.

Jane becomes very upset because she knows herself to be an utterly truthful person.

At Lowood, the rooms were dark and cold, the meals were not nutritious, and basically inedible, and the treatment by most of the teachers was cruel.

Miss Scatcherd is a mean woman who consistently picks on Helen Burns and then beats her.

Jane realizes that she and Helen have a love of reading in common.

Jane is shocked that Helen is not resentful toward the people who are mean to her.

Helen recites Christ’s teachings and honestly lives by his words.

Jane says it would be impossible for her to love Mrs. Reed or John Reed.

The children are half starved and sent out in the cold without warm clothing, and they must walk two miles to and from church on Sundays.

Mr. Brocklehurst tells the whole school that Jane is a liar, and instructs the students to shun her.

Helen Burns and Miss Temple give Jane some of the love she needs.

Most of the girls become sick with typhus, and Mr. Brockle-hurst is dismissed.

Jane excels at her studies, and takes up French and drawing.

Helen accepts her death and looks forward to being in God’s care.

Jane settles into the routine and eventually becomes a teacher.

After Miss Temple marries, Jane realizes she is ready for a change.

Jane puts an advertisement in the newspaper requesting a position as a teacher.

Bessie tells Jane that the Reed girls are not as intelligent as she, and that John is a disappointment to his mother. She also tells Jane that her uncle, John Eyre, had been looking for her several years earlier.

Jane meets Mr. Rochester on the road when his horse slips on the ice.

Mrs. Fairfax is a warm and friendly person. She is very happy to have Jane join the staff at Thornfield.

Jane likes Adele immediately, but cares even more for her when she finds out that she is an orphan like herself.

Jane is feeling rather bored and restless.

Mr. Rochester is fascinated by her strength and honesty.

Jane does not think Rochester handsome, and he thinks Jane to be plain.

She believes her to be the person with the strange laugh and the one who started the fire.

Celine brought another man to her bedroom, and Mr. Rochester overheard them discussing him in a negative way.

Adele speaks mostly French and very little English.

Jane cannot sleep for the rest of the night, and describes herself as feeling feverish.

Jane admits to loving Rochester.

She believes she cannot compete with Blanche Ingram, who is described as being beautiful, and socially prominent.

Jane takes an immediate dislike to him.

Believing Grace to be the person who caused the fire, and who mysteriously laughs, Jane does not understand why Grace is allowed to get away with her behavior.

After observing Blanche interact with the other guests, Jane concludes that she is a phony, and that Mr. Rochester could not possibly love her. She assumes it is a political arrangement.

Rochester insists on her attendance at the events, and asks where she is going when she attempts to leave.

He tells her she looks depressed, though Jane denies it.

Jane recognizes Rochester under the gypsy costume, although he apparently fooled the rest of the guests.

He becomes very distressed and leans on Jane for support.

This gesture represents his growing emotional need for her, and Jane’s constant presence as his helper.

Richard Mason is attacked by someone in the attic.

Rochester intimates his love for Jane, but proceeds with his plans to marry Blanche.

John Reed apparently drank himself into debt, eventually using up his mother’s money as well. The rumor is that he killed himself.

Mrs. Reed tells Jane of her uncle, John Eyre, who three years earlier sought to make Jane his heir. Mrs. Reed told him that Jane had died of typhus at Lowood.

Nobody is with Mrs. Reed, she dies alone.

Richard Mason describes his attacker as an animal who bit him and sucked his blood.

Georgiana goes on to make a prestigious match, and Eliza enters the convent.

She is extremely excited about seeing Rochester again; she talks about how she had never felt like this, as if she were coming home.

She tells Rochester that anywhere he is, is her home.

She describes him as being very happy.

It is mid-summer when Rochester proposes. They are in the orchard at night.

Jane passionately reveals her true feelings, calling them “equals.”

Jane is shocked; she thinks he is just playing a joke on her.

A violent thunderstorm breaks out, so they run into the house.

She tells him it would not become her, she would not be “Jane Eyre.”

Mrs. Fairfax warns Jane that “all is not gold that glitters.”

She dreams once more of an infant and sees Thornfield Hall in ruins.

The mad, mystery woman enters Jane’s room.

The tree is split in two by a lightning bolt.

Jane spends the night with Adele, and is unable to sleep.

A lawyer, Mr. Briggs, reads a letter stating that Rochester had already been married.

They are sister and brother.

The Mason family is from the West Indies.

The marriage was arranged by his father.

They were married fifteen years ago.

There was a secret history of madness and insanity in the family.

It was a letter from John Eyre to Richard Mason that prompted Richard’s appearance at the wedding.

Rochester first suggests she be his mistress, and then suggests they marry and move to the south of France.

Jane has a dream where she hears her mother telling her to flee.

Jane’s description of her tremendous struggle with her decision, and her description of how painful it will
be for her to leave Rochester is evidence of her devastation.

The Rivers family lives at Marsh End, or Moor House.

She begs for food and money, but is not offered any help.

Hannah leaves her outside in the rain.

No, Moor House is a modest house, with small rooms, and homey but simple furnishings.

After observing her, they retreat to another room to discuss her in private, then return and bring her to bed.

They think she dresses well, and is educated because of the way she speaks.

She doesn’t want to explain about her experience at Thorn-field Hall.

St. John is a minister, and Diana and Mary are governesses.

He refers to her as a “half-frozen bird,” and “not at all handsome.”

She describes him as being handsome, but bland in personality.

They all love reading, and are well educated.

She admires her strength and leadership qualities.

She thinks him cold, and lacking in passion.

Jane’s new home is a cottage on the grounds of the school.

Jane’s pupils are mostly poor, uneducated children of farmers.

Their “Uncle John” leaves the Rivers family a small inheritance upon his death.

Jane describes Miss Oliver as a “perfect beauty.”

Miss Oliver is the benefactress of the school.

Mr. Oliver is Miss Oliver’s father; the sole rich man in the town of Morton.

Jane observes him blushing in Miss Oliver’s presence, and realizes that he is in love with Miss Oliver.

She is now regarded with respect by the towns-people.

St. John and Miss Oliver are attracted to each other.

Mr. Oliver tells Jane that he would not oppose a match between his daughter and St. John.

Her days are quiet and orderly, and her dreams are excited and passionate.

Miss Oliver respects Jane’s mind and talent.

Jane shocks St. John by telling him, “you tremble and become flushed when ever Miss Oliver enters the
schoolroom.”

Jane is studying German.

He loves her, but does not think she is suited to missionary life.

He tears off a piece of a paper she is leaning on while painting.

She dismisses it as unimportant.

It is Christmas time.

Jane cleaned and redecorated the house.

He thinks Jane would make a good missionary wife.

She knows he doesn’t love her, and she doesn’t love him.

Diana agreed with Jane, that missionary life would not be for her, but she says that St. John is a good man.

St. John is described as extremely cold and unfeeling.

Miss Oliver married someone else.

Jane tells St. John she must find out what happened to Rochester.

She hears Rochester call her name.

“I am coming, wait for me! Oh, I will come.”

She can’t stop thinking or dreaming about him.

She hears Rochester’s voice calling her name.

Diana supports Jane, recognizing St. John’s faults, but calling him a “good man.”

Thornfield Hall is burned to the ground.

Jane stays at the Rochester Arms Inn, where The Host informs her of Rochester’s fate.

Rochester is blind and maimed; Bertha has died in the fire she started.

He cannot be more passionate about his feelings. He reacts jealousy to St. John and is worried that Jane will
not love his deformed body.

He called out for Jane in the middle of the night, and he heard “a voice” answer him.

Rochester has a new faith in God, and openly prays.

Diana marries a sea-captain, Mary marries a clergyman, and they visit every year. St. John stays in India
and Jane fears he will be with God soon.