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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will explore the novel's setting - the bleak and barren landscape of Yorkshire.

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5 Questions

Q1.
Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë were all famous...
Missionaries
Traders
Correct answer: Writers
Q2.
Where did Charlotte spend her childhood?
Liverpool
The colonies
Correct answer: Yorkshire
Q3.
How did Charlotte's sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, die?
Choleratë
Old age
Correct answer: Tuberculosis
Q4.
What pseudonym did Charlotte use to write her novel?
Anne Brontë
Branwell Brontë
Correct answer: Currer Bell
Emily Brontë
Q5.
In what year did Charlotte publish her 'Jane Eyre'?
1789
1807
Correct answer: 1847
1901

5 Questions

Q1.
What place does Brontë use for the setting of this novel?
London.
The Colonies.
Correct answer: Yorkshire.
Q2.
What is atmosphere?
Correct answer: Atmosphere refers to the mood of a particular place.
Atmosphere refers to the way that something looks.
Atmosphere refers to the weather.
Q3.
Why did Brontë use the pseudonym Currer Bell?
She didn't want to become famous.
She preferred the name Currer Bell to her own.
Correct answer: She recognised that people would be more likely to buy her novel if they thought it was written by a man.
Q4.
What terrible tragedy occurred when Brontë was a pupil at school?
Charlotte caught tuberculosis.
Charlotte was expelled.
Correct answer: Her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died from tuberculosis.
Q5.
How was Brontë employed?
Correct answer: Governess.
Missionary.
Trader.