Question

Read the following passage from the famous classic 'Jane Eyre' and answer the questions that follows.

John Reed was a school boy of fourteen years old, four years older than I. for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities. He gorged himself habitually at table. which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. He ought now to have been at school; but his mama had taken him home for a month or two, 'on account of his delicate health. Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother's heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John's sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home.

John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me: not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh on my bones shrank when he came near. There were moments when I was bewildered by the terror he inspired: because I had no appeal whatever against either his menaces or his inflictions: the servants did not like to offend their young master by taking my part against him, and Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject: she never saw him strike or heard him abuse me; though he did both now and then in her very presence: more frequently however behind her back

Habitually obedient to John. I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it. I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly I tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair.
"That is for your impudence in answering mama a while since,' said he and for your sneaking way of getting behind curtains, and for the look you had in your eyes two minutes since you rat! Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it: my care was how

to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult. 'What were you doing behind the curtain?" he asked.

'I was reading. Show the book."

I returned to the window and fetched it thence. "You have no business to take our books: you are a dependant mama says; you have no

money: your father left you none, you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mama expense. Now, I'll teach you to rummage my hook-shelve they are mine; all the house belong to me.

or will do in years. Go and stand by the door, out of the way of the mirror of the windows."

1. Find words in the passage which mean the same as:

(A) unhealthy (B) longing (C) threats (D) balance.

2. Tick the right choice:

(A) John Reed ate so much that it made (i) flabby (ii) bilious (iii) bleared

(B) Jane was obedient to John because she had become (i) immune to it (ii) pretended to be unhurt (iii) used so it

(C) John struck Jane because of her
(i)rudeness (ii) hiding behind a curtain (iii) both (i) and (ii)

(D) Jane was hiding behind a curtain because

(i) the book she was reading was not hers
(ii) she wanted to read in peace

(iii) she was not old enough to read that book

3. State whether the following statements are True or False.

(A) John loved his mother and sisters.

(B) John was four years older than Jane. (C) The servants always tried to rescue Jane.

(D) John punished Jane because he didn't like the way she looked at him.

4. Answer the questions briefly: (A) How does Anne describe John Reed's appearance?

(B) Bring out the difference between Mr. Miles and John's mother's opinion about John's delicate health.

(C) Explain in your own words- "Mrs. Reed was blind and deaf on the subject ofJohn hitting Jane."

(D) What opinion do you form of John Reed after reading this passage?

Please give the correct answer please

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Answer 1

please give the correct answer

Answer 2

Answer:

Explain ‘my terror had passed its climax’ in your own words.

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