Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following does NOT accurately characterize Jane Eyre’s relationship to other literary works ?

   A. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre addresses the power of wealth and class.
   B. Like “Dover Beach,” Jane Eyre mourns the diminishing power of Christian faith.
   C. Through Rochester, Jane Eyre develops a Byronic hero.
   D. Like Great Expectations, Jane Eyre can be read as a bildungsroman.

2. What does the shift in weather in Chapter 23 of Jane Eyre reflect about the plot ?

   A. It functions as a metaphor for the women’s rights movement.
   B. It foreshadows a negative shift in mood.
   C. It symbolizes the increase in scientific knowledge.
   D. It acts as an allusion to the importance of nature in the Romantic period.

3. How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?

   A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
   B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
   C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
   D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

4. In “Jane Eyre” how does Bertha NOT trouble the patriarchy ?

   A. She is sexually deviant.
   B. She exemplifies unfeminine anger.
   C. She is not submissive.
   D. She is understood to be mad.

5. How is “Jane Eyre” different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels ?

   A. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression.
   B. It is a Bildungsroman.
   C. It explains strange phenomena.
   D. The theme of imprisonment is prominent.

6. In what way do the houses in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Jane Eyre” differ from each other as Gothic literary structures ?

   A. The relative location of the room in which the “troubled” women are kept
   B. The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists
   C. The relative location of the houses within the larger communities
   D. The relative age of the houses

7. How is Thornfield in “Jane Eyre” different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels ?

   A. It is an ancestral estate.
   B. It contains vault-like spaces.
   C. It is located in England.
   D. It is mysterious.

8. Which book was not written by Jane Austen ?

   A. Sense and Suspensibility
   B. Emma
   C. Pride and Prejudice
   D. Mansfield Park

9. Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?

   A. Jane Eyre
   B. Ramona
   C. Emma
   D. Rebecca

10. Jane Austen’s other writings are______________?

    A. Sense and Sensibility
    B. Emma
    C. Persuasion
    D. All of these