Jane Eyre: Character Quotes Test

"Who said?" questions for each main character in "Jane Eyre." Some have multiple quotes and appear several times. The quotes become harder to identify.

Who said?

“‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless.’”

Jane Eyre

Who said?

“'It's such a strange thing she should have that fit: I wonder if she saw anything. Missis was rather too hard.'“

Bessie

Who said?

'You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, Mama says.'

John Reed

Who said?

'Take her away to the red room, and lock her in there.'

Mrs. Reed

Who said?

'To me? Bless you, child; what an idea! To me! I am only the housekeeper - the manager.'

Mrs. Fairfax

Who said?

'Fortunately, I have it in my power to supply deficiencies for this once.'

Miss Temple

Who said?

'No; just put my pint of porter and bit of pudding on a tray, and I'll carry it upstairs.'

Grace Poole

Who said?

'St. John! You used to call Jane your third sister, but you don't treat her as such: you should kiss her too!'

Diana Rivers

Who said?

'Ma boite! Ma boite!' exclaimed she, running towards it.

Adèle

Who said?

“I tell you I could not forget it, and I took my revenge; for you to be adopted by your uncle, and placed in a state of ease and comfort, was what I could not endure.

Mrs. Reed

Who said?

'She bit me', he murmured. 'She worried me like a tigress, when Rochester got the knife from her.'

Richard Mason

Who said?

'No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,' he began,'especially a naughty little girl.'

Mr. Brocklehurst

Who said?

“God and nature intended you for a missionary wife.“

St. John Rivers

Who said?

'Humbug! Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary;'

Mr. Rochester

Who said?

“You come to bid me goodbye, then: you are just in time, probably.‘

Helen Burns

Who said?

“For they are mine, all the house belongs to me.“

John Reed

Who said?

“Poverty for me was synonymous with degredation.“

Jane Eyre

Who said?

“That house is a dungeon“

Mr. Rochester

Who said?

“Death is so certain an entrance to happiness - to glory.“

Helen Burns

Who said?

“I believe there are bad folks about. There has been a beggar-woman—I declare she is not gone yet!—laid down there. Get up! for shame! Move off, I say!’“

Hannah

Who said?

“See the carriage, Jane…Tell me if it would not fit Mrs. Rochester exactly.“

Mr. Rochester

Who said?

“It is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them“

Bessie

Who said?

“Half of them are detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all are incubi“

Blanche Ingram

Who said?

“I tell you I could not forget it, and I took my revenge; for you to be adopted by your uncle, and placed in a state of ease and comfort, was what I could not endure.

Mrs. Reed

Who said?

“Although wealth and rank sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart.“

Jane Eyre

Who said?

“I would have sullied my innocent flower, breathed guilt on its purity.“

Mr. Rochester

Who said?

“He is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine.“

Jane Eyre

Who said?

'What tricks Theodore and I used to play on our Miss Wilsons and Mrs. Greys, and Madame Jouberts!'

Blanche Ingram

Who said?

“Don’t mention governesses…In her I see all the faults of the class.“

Mrs. Ingram

Who said?

“That is my wife…And this is what I wished to have“

Mr. Rochester

Who said?

“Relinquish! What! My vocation? My great work?“

St. John Rivers

Who said?

“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.“

Mr. Rochester

Who said?

“I advise you to live sinless, and I wish you to die tranquil.“

Jane Eyre

Who said?

“All men must die…but all are not condemned to meet a lingering and premature doom, such as yours would be if you perished here of want.“

St. John River