Jane Eyre Trivia
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108 free Jane Eyre trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Jane Eyre trivia quiz walks through all five stages of Charlotte Brontë's novel: the red room at Gateshead, the cold dormitories of Lowood, the governess years at Thornfield Hall, the near-starvation on the moors and the return to a blinded Rochester. Plot questions cover the horse on the ice, the fire in the bedroom, the torn veil, the interrupted wedding, the inheritance from an uncle in the West Indies and the voice calling across the miles. Beyond the story there are questions on how the book was made and received: the Currer Bell pseudonym, the publisher who took it after The Professor was rejected, the dedication to Thackeray, the reviewer who called it anti-Christian, the real school where two of Charlotte's sisters caught the illness that killed them, and the Derbyshire house behind Thornfield. Later questions reach Wide Sargasso Sea, The Madwoman in the Attic, Orson Welles, Timothy Dalton and the 2011 film. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the novel, its author, its characters and its adaptations, and each explanation adds one detail worth remembering. It suits book clubs, English literature students and anyone who has ever muttered 'Reader, I married him.'
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Q 01Under what pen name was Jane Eyre first published?
Currer Bell
Currer Bell: Charlotte later explained that the sisters chose ambiguous names because 'authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice'.
Q 02What lie does Jane's dying aunt confess she once told Jane's rich uncle?
That Jane was dead
That Jane was dead: her uncle had written asking to adopt Jane and make her his heir, but her spiteful aunt kept the letter from her.
Q 03Which London firm first published Jane Eyre?
Smith, Elder & Co.
Smith, Elder & Co.: in 1848 Charlotte and Anne travelled to its London office to prove to their publisher that they were two different authors.
Q 04What subtitle did Jane Eyre carry on its original title page?
An Autobiography
An Autobiography: the book's success led the public to credit its author with other novels too, so the third edition carried a note denying them.
Q 05Which word completes Jane Eyre's opening line, 'There was no possibility of taking a ___ that day'?
Walk
Walk: with cold rain keeping the family indoors, ten-year-old Jane hides behind the curtains of a window seat to read.
Q 06What is the name of the house where Jane spends her unhappy childhood with her aunt and cousins?
Gateshead Hall
Gateshead Hall: Jane's dying uncle made his wife promise to raise the orphan as one of her own children, a promise his widow resents.
Q 07What is the surname of the aunt and cousins Jane lives with as a child?
Reed
Reed: cousin John drinks and gambles himself into ruin and is said to have killed himself, news that brings on his mother's fatal stroke.
Q 08Jane's parents died of which disease?
Typhus
Typhus: her clergyman father caught it while visiting the poor of a manufacturing town, her mother caught it from him, and both died.
Q 09As punishment for fighting back against the bullying John, where is Jane locked?
The red room
The red room: her uncle had died in it, and when a strange gleam crosses the wall she believes his ghost has come and faints in terror.
Q 10Which kindly apothecary suggests that Jane should be sent away to school?
Mr Lloyd
Mr Lloyd: when the school's superintendent writes to him, his reply backs up Jane's account and clears her of the charge of lying.
Q 11What is the name of the charity school for girls that Jane is sent to?
Lowood
Lowood: its fees of fifteen pounds a year did not cover board and teaching, so subscribers paid the rest and the girls were called 'charity children'.
Q 12Who is the harsh clergyman who runs Jane's school and brands her a liar in front of the pupils?
Mr Brocklehurst
Mr Brocklehurst: he orders a girl's naturally curly hair cut off as vanity, just as his own wife and daughters sweep in dressed in velvet, silk and furs.
Q 13Which older girl becomes Jane's best friend at school and teaches her not to bear grudges?
Helen Burns
Helen Burns: when a teacher makes her wear the word 'Slattern' on her forehead all day, Jane tears it off and thrusts it into the fire.
Q 21How does Jane first meet Mr Rochester?
His horse slips on ice and throws him
His horse slips on ice and throws him, and later, at Thornfield, he teases her that she must have bewitched his horse.
Q 22What is Mr Rochester's first name?
Edward
Edward: reunited with Jane at the end, he asks 'Am I hideous, Jane?' and she teases, 'Very, sir: you always were, you know.'
Q 23Jane saves Rochester's life one night by doing what?
Throwing water on his burning bed
Throwing water on his burning bed: he thanks her tenderly and won't let her go, yet the next morning he sets off abruptly for a house party.
Q 14Jane's school friend dies in her arms of which illness?
Consumption
Consumption: she dies while an epidemic sweeps the school, and the outcry over the deaths brings in benefactors who rebuild it and rein in its director.
Q 15Who is the caring superintendent of the school who publicly clears Jane's name?
Miss Temple
Miss Temple: after hearing Jane's side, she has her and her friend to tea in her room and cuts them slices of a seed-cake from a locked drawer.
Q 16At Jane's charity school, what punishment follows when she drops her slate during the director's visit?
Standing on a stool
Standing on a stool: the director forbids anyone to speak to her that day, but her friend passes and smiles, giving her strength.
Q 17After eight years at her charity school, what makes Jane long to leave and seek a post elsewhere?
Her mentor departs
Her mentor departs: once the superintendent moves away with her new husband, Jane tires of 'the routine of eight years in one afternoon' and advertises for a post.
Q 18What is the name of Rochester's young ward, whom Jane is hired to teach?
Adèle Varens
Adèle Varens: after Jane flees, Rochester sends her to a strict school, and Jane later takes her out of it and finds her a kinder one.
Q 19What was the profession of Jane's pupil's absent mother?
Dancer
Dancer: Rochester kept her in Paris until he caught her with another man, ended the affair, and next morning shot the man in the arm in a duel.
Q 20Who is the elderly housekeeper who answers Jane's advertisement and runs Rochester's household?
Mrs Fairfax
Mrs Fairfax: on hearing of the engagement, she warns Jane to keep Rochester at a distance, since gentlemen of his station seldom make governesses their wives.
Q 24Which servant does Rochester blame for the strange laughter and other odd happenings in the house?
Grace Poole
Grace Poole: she is really the well-paid keeper of Rochester's hidden wife, and her fondness for gin is what lets the prisoner slip out.
Q 25Which beautiful, snobbish socialite does Rochester pretend to court to make Jane jealous?
Blanche Ingram
Blanche Ingram: to test her, Rochester let a rumour reach her that his fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and she and her mother turned cold.
Q 26While guests are staying, Rochester disguises himself as what in order to question Jane alone?
A gypsy fortune-teller
A gypsy fortune-teller: Jane half suspects the old woman is a servant in disguise, until he asks, 'Well, Jane, do you know me?'
Q 27What does a strange woman rip in two in Jane's room shortly before the ceremony?
Her wedding veil
Her wedding veil: the elegant veil is ruined, so on the morning of the ceremony Jane wears the plain square of blond she had made herself.
Q 28What is the name of Rochester's first wife, hidden on the third floor of his house?
Bertha
Bertha: Rochester says her family knew madness ran in their line and kept it from him until he had become her husband.
Q 29Where did Rochester marry his first wife?
Jamaica
Jamaica: Rochester lived there with her for four years and one night even meant to shoot himself, before deciding to take her to England instead.
Q 30Which house-guest is attacked and bitten one night, and later steps forward to halt Jane's wedding?
Richard Mason
Richard Mason: he learns of the engagement from Jane's own uncle, who had just received Jane's letter announcing her happy news.