This GCSE English Literature quiz will challenge you on setting in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. At its most basic level, “setting” in literature refers to the location and the time in which the events of a fictional text take place. Of course, many, if not most, texts have more than one setting: events are likely to occur in different places and times. Within the wider setting or settings, buildings and spaces provide individual settings which often contrast with one another.
Besides time and place, events form a crucial element in a text’s setting, even when these only occur in the background of the main events. Political and social issues play a similar role. This wider fictional world can be glimpsed by the reader and is known as context (it is important not to confuse this fictional context, which is integral to the setting of a text, with the author’s real-life context).
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Atmosphere, another key element of setting, will usually change multiple times over the course of a text.
In Jane Eyre geography plays a role almost as large as that of a key character. Jane’s internal states are often reflected in the wildness of the natural world outside. Many important scenes take place outside, often in a landscape seemingly drawn from the world of fairy tales. Jane, the orphan, moves about from place to place as she seeks to define herself and to become independent. At her lowest point she is homeless and entirely at the mercy of the unwilling charity of strangers and of nature at its most harsh.
Remember that a text’s setting includes geographical elements such as region, country, environment, landscapes and buildings. How much do you notice about the way in which different characters interact with their various environments? What effect do these interactions have on the text?
Answer the questions below on setting in Jane Eyre.
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Jane Eyre is set in which country? |
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France |
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Belgium |
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England |
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Australia |
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When is the novel set? |
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In the sixteenth century |
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In the nineteenth century |
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In the twentieth century |
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In the future |
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Where is the opening of the novel set? |
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Thornfield Hall |
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Lowood School |
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Moor House |
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Gateshead-hall |
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Which of the following does NOT describe Lowood School as it is before Helen's death? |
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Cold |
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Cheerful |
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Strict |
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Damp |
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"About ten minutes after, the driver got down and opened a pair of gates: we passed through, and they clashed to behind us. We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candle-light gleamed from one curtained bow-window: all the rest were dark." This sentence depicts Jane's arrival where? |
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Gateshead |
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Lowood School |
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Thornfield Hall |
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Moor House |
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"A rude noise broke on these fine ripplings and whisperings, at once so far away and so clear: a positive tramp, tramp; a metallic clatter, which effaced the soft wave-wanderings; as, in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aërial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon and blended clouds, where tint melts into tint." This scene forebodes the arrival of which character? |
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Mr Mason |
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St John Rivers |
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Bertha Mason |
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Mr Rochester |
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Which of the following is a quality shared by each of the separate settings in the novel? |
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Isolation |
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Beauty |
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Wildness |
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All of the above |
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"My home, then — when I at last find a home, — is a cottage: a little room with white-washed walls, and a sanded floor; containing four painted chairs and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes, and a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen, with a deal bedstead, and chest of drawers; small, yet too large to be filled with my scanty wardrobe." What effect is created by this list of the contents and qualities of Jane's new home? |
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Jane's home reminds her too much of Thornfield |
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Jane's home is plain and poor and leaves her feeling dissatisfied |
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Jane's new home is modest and provides just a little more than she needs |
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Jane's new home is luxurious |
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"The lawns, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. The front was, as I had once seen it in a dream, but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile looking, perforated with paneless windows: no roof, no battlements, no chimneys — all had crashed in." What is the overriding impression given of the fire-gutted Thornfield? |
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Emptiness |
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The building exudes a sense of destiny fulfilled |
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The building exudes an air of excitement |
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The building exudes an air of optimism |
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"The hills beyond Marsh-Glen sent the answer faintly back — "Where are you!" I listened. The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. "Down superstition!" I commented, as that spectre rose up black by the black yew at the gate." Jane somehow hears Rochester's voice calling her. This depiction of the midnight scene on the moors relies on what type of imagery? |
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Supernatural |
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Philosophical |
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Scientific |
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Medical |
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1.
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Jane Eyre is set in which country? |
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[ ] |
France |
[ ] |
Belgium |
[x] |
England |
[ ] |
Australia |
|
|
2.
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When is the novel set? |
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[ ] |
In the sixteenth century |
[x] |
In the nineteenth century |
[ ] |
In the twentieth century |
[ ] |
In the future |
|
|
3.
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Where is the opening of the novel set? |
|
[ ] |
Thornfield Hall |
[ ] |
Lowood School |
[ ] |
Moor House |
[x] |
Gateshead-hall |
|
|
4.
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Which of the following does NOT describe Lowood School as it is before Helen's death? |
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[ ] |
Cold |
[x] |
Cheerful |
[ ] |
Strict |
[ ] |
Damp |
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5.
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"About ten minutes after, the driver got down and opened a pair of gates: we passed through, and they clashed to behind us. We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candle-light gleamed from one curtained bow-window: all the rest were dark." This sentence depicts Jane's arrival where? |
|
[ ] |
Gateshead |
[ ] |
Lowood School |
[x] |
Thornfield Hall |
[ ] |
Moor House |
|
|
6.
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"A rude noise broke on these fine ripplings and whisperings, at once so far away and so clear: a positive tramp, tramp; a metallic clatter, which effaced the soft wave-wanderings; as, in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aërial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon and blended clouds, where tint melts into tint." This scene forebodes the arrival of which character? |
|
[ ] |
Mr Mason |
[ ] |
St John Rivers |
[ ] |
Bertha Mason |
[x] |
Mr Rochester |
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7.
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Which of the following is a quality shared by each of the separate settings in the novel? |
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[ ] |
Isolation |
[ ] |
Beauty |
[ ] |
Wildness |
[x] |
All of the above |
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8.
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"My home, then — when I at last find a home, — is a cottage: a little room with white-washed walls, and a sanded floor; containing four painted chairs and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes, and a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen, with a deal bedstead, and chest of drawers; small, yet too large to be filled with my scanty wardrobe." What effect is created by this list of the contents and qualities of Jane's new home? |
|
[ ] |
Jane's home reminds her too much of Thornfield |
[ ] |
Jane's home is plain and poor and leaves her feeling dissatisfied |
[x] |
Jane's new home is modest and provides just a little more than she needs |
[ ] |
Jane's new home is luxurious |
|
|
9.
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"The lawns, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. The front was, as I had once seen it in a dream, but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile looking, perforated with paneless windows: no roof, no battlements, no chimneys — all had crashed in." What is the overriding impression given of the fire-gutted Thornfield? |
|
[x] |
Emptiness |
[ ] |
The building exudes a sense of destiny fulfilled |
[ ] |
The building exudes an air of excitement |
[ ] |
The building exudes an air of optimism |
|
|
10.
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"The hills beyond Marsh-Glen sent the answer faintly back — "Where are you!" I listened. The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. "Down superstition!" I commented, as that spectre rose up black by the black yew at the gate." Jane somehow hears Rochester's voice calling her. This depiction of the midnight scene on the moors relies on what type of imagery? |
|
[x] |
Supernatural |
[ ] |
Philosophical |
[ ] |
Scientific |
[ ] |
Medical |
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