501 Critical Reading Questions

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her family had ever been to visit me. I had had no communication by
letter or message with the outer world: school-rules, school-duties,
school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and cos-
tumes, and preferences, and antipathies: such was what I knew of exis-
tence. And now I felt that it was not enough: I tired of the routine of
eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for
liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly
blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication; for change,
stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space: “Then,”
I cried, half desperate, “grant me at least a new servitude!”
274.
Miss Temple was the narrator’s
I. teacher.
II. friend.
III. mother.
a. I only
b. II only
c. III only
d. I and II
e. all of the above
275.
While Miss Temple was at Lowood, the narrator
a. was calm and content.
b. was often alone.
c. had frequent disciplinary problems.
d. longed to leave Lowood.
e. felt as if she were in a prison.
276.
The word inmates in line 12 means
a. captives.
b. patients.
c. prisoners.
d. residents.
e. convalescents.
277.
Mrs. Reed (line 49) is most likely
a. the narrator’s mother.
b. the head mistress of Lowood.
c. the narrator’s former guardian.
d. the narrator’s friend.
e. a fellow student at Lowood.
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