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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will begin reading 'Jane Eyre' and learn about Jane's miserable life with the Reed family.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What word do we use to describe the admirable main character of a story?
Correct answer: Hero/heroine
Side character
Villain
Q2.
Why can Jane be described as the novel's eponymous heroine?
She grows up throughout the novel.
Correct answer: She has the same name as the novel.
She is the admirable main character of the novel.
Q3.
What is an orphan?
A child who is adopted.
Correct answer: A child whose parents have died.
A poor child
Q4.
Why is Jane living with the Reeds at the start of the novel?
Correct answer: Her parents died.
She got expelled from school.
She is the Reeds' daughter.
Q5.
What are the names of Charlotte Brontë's sisters who died from tuberculosis?
Anne and Emily
Correct answer: Elizabeth and Marie
Marie and Anne

5 Questions

Q1.
Jane Eyre's parents have died. We can therefore describe Jane as...
A missionary
A writer
Correct answer: An orphan
Q2.
What are the names of Mrs Reed's children?
John, Eliza and Currer Bell
Correct answer: John, Eliza and Georgiana
John, Jane and Eliza
Q3.
Mrs Reed wants Jane to be...
Confident
Kind
Correct answer: Submissive and obedient
Q4.
Jane feels like she is less important than the Reed children because...
Correct answer: She doesn't belong to their family. She is also not as physically attractive as the Reed children.
She isn't as clever as they are.
She isn't as confident as they are.
Q5.
What disease killed Elizabeth and Marie Brontë?
Cholera
The Black Death
Correct answer: Tuberculosis

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