Jane Eyre Quiz Chapter 18

27. All of the following phrases from paragraph 2 work to make a similar point about Miss Ingram EXCEPT

D. “high tone of sentiment.”

28. Bronte has Jane address the reader directly in paragraphs 1 and 2 in order to

B. share Jane’s intimate feelings.

29. The phrase “I should have had one vital struggle with two tigers—jealousy and despair: then, my heart torn out and devoured, I should have admired her” employs

C. one metaphor and one hyperbole.

30. Forms of the word “fail” are repeated three times in paragraphs 4 and 5 in order to

C. emphasize Jane’s belief that it is only she who can please Mr. Rochester.

31. The point of the last paragraph in this passage is to illustrate the narrator’s sense of

C. partiality toward Mr. Rochester.

32. The phrase “contumelious epithet” in line 24 may be best defined as a(n)

B. abusive remark.

33. In paragraph 4, the metaphor “each shaft launched hit the mark” compares a thrown spear hitting a target to MissIngram’s

D. attempts to impress Rochester.

34. “I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him; but then it came of itself; it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated maneuvers: and one had but to accept it—to answer what he asked without pretension, to address him when needful without grimace— and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam.” In the above quotation from paragraph 6, Bronte uses a simile to compare a sunbeam to Rochester’s

A. facial expression.

35. Jane concludes that she cannot condemn Rochester for deciding to marry for position instead of love because

C. she admits she does not understand the reasoning.

36. The last paragraph of the passage suggests that

E. Mr. Rochester hides secrets that will be plumbed.