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Key learning points
- 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
Q2.
Where did Charlotte spend her childhood?
Liverpool
The colonies
Q3.
How did Charlotte's sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, die?
Choleratë
Old age
Q4.
What pseudonym did Charlotte use to write her novel?
Anne Brontë
Branwell Brontë
Emily Brontë
Q5.
In what year did Charlotte publish her 'Jane Eyre'?
1789
1807
1901
5 Questions
Q1.
What place does Brontë use for the setting of this novel?
London.
The Colonies.
Q2.
What is atmosphere?
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.
Q4.
What terrible tragedy occurred when Brontë was a pupil at school?
Charlotte caught tuberculosis.
Charlotte was expelled.
Q5.
How was Brontë employed?
Missionary.
Trader.