Jane Eyre: Chapter 14
Guess first. Then read the summary. Then open the answers.
Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
What is waiting on the dining-room table when Jane and Adèle come in?
Answer in your head or on paper first
Show answer
A small box, which Adèle recognizes at once as her own gift.Reference: Chapter 14, the summons to the dining-room
- Question 2 · Recall
What does Jane answer when Mr. Rochester asks whether she thinks him handsome?
Answer in your head or on paper first
Show answer
She blurts out, No, sir.Reference: Chapter 14, Rochester's first question
- Question 3 · Recall
What does Adèle do after she puts on her new dress?
Answer in your head or on paper first
Show answer
She comes back in a rose-colored satin dress and dances across the room, then drops on one knee and thanks Rochester.Reference: Chapter 14, Adèle's return
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Rochester say he sent for Jane?
Answer in your head or on paper first
Show answer
The fire and the chandelier were not enough company, and Adèle and Mrs. Fairfax were not what he wanted. He wanted to draw Jane out and learn more about her.Reference: Chapter 14, Rochester's explanation
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Jane call Rochester's claim that unheard-of circumstances demand unheard-of rules a dangerous maxim?
Answer in your head or on paper first
Show answer
She says it is liable to abuse. A fallible human, she argues, should not claim a power that only the divine and perfect can safely hold.Reference: Chapter 14, the talk about right and wrong
Chapter summary
For several days Mr. Rochester is busy with visitors from Millcote. One wet evening, after the gentlemen leave for a meeting, he sends for Jane and Adèle. A small box is on the dining-room table, and Adèle opens it with delight. Mrs. Fairfax comes in with her knitting, and Rochester asks Jane to sit near the fire.
He asks whether she thinks him handsome, and Jane answers No before she can soften it. He tells her he wants her to talk, says he will give orders without her taking offense, and she agrees to dispense with formal manners as long as they do not become insolence. He says he was set on a wrong path at twenty-one and might have been a good man. Jane tells him repentance is the cure for remorse and warns him about his plan to take pleasure at any cost. At nine she says she must put Adèle to bed. Adèle appears in a satin dress, dances and drops on one knee to thank him. Rochester says he will explain why he keeps her some day and says good night.
Come back in a few days and try these 5 again before you open the answers.
Study your own books on Mind86
Study a whole book from your own copy. Upload your own copy after you sign up.
Create an account