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Summer Reading Assignment for British Literature and AP English Literature and Composition Mead Hall Episcopal School; Mrs. Mary Dickey

Read the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and complete the following study guide questions. ​ ​ Answer the questions in complete sentences using no sources other than the novel and your own brain. (That means no Spark Notes, Cliff Notes, etc. That would be cheating.) I will take up this assignment on the first day of school for your first grade.

Ch. 1-10: 1. Briefly identify each of the following characters: Mrs. Reed, John Reed, Bessie, Helen Burns, Mr. Brocklehurst, Miss Temple, Jane Eyre. 2.Describe the conditions at Lowood School. 3. Why do the conditions at Lowood improve? What does Jane gain from her 8 years there? Ch. 11-20: 4. Describe Mr. Rochester. Why do you think Jane is attracted to him? 5. What strange sound does Jane hear at Thornfield, and who or what does she think is responsible? 6. Explain how Jane saves Rochester’s life. 7. Who is Mason, and what does his relationship to Rochester seem to be? 8. How does the author create a sense of suspense, tension, and uncertainty in this section of the book? Ch. 21-27: 9. Describe the events that occur when Jane revisits Gateshead. What are Jane’s feelings towards Mrs. Reed now? Why? 10. When Jane returns to Thornfield, what revelation does Rochester make to her? Did you find this surprising? 11. Who is Bertha, and how does Jane find out about her? Ch. 28-35: 12. Name and briefly describe the members of the Rivers family. How does Jane come to be with them? 13. What question does St. John ask Jane? What is her answer, and why? Ch. 36-38: 14. What has happened at Thornfield in Jane’s absence? 15. How has Rochester changed? Has the relationship between Rochester and Jane changed? Explain. 16. How does the novel conclude? Did you find the ending satisfactory? Why, or why not?

Book of Genesis Study Guide

Find the answers to the following questions in the Book of Genesis:

1. What did God create on the third day? 2. What did God say was to be the relationship of Adam and Eve to the other living beings of creation? 3. Since there was no rain in Eden, how were the plants watered? 4. Who assigned names to all the living creatures? 5. According to the serpent, why did God not want Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? 6. What was the first result of eating the forbidden fruit? 7. What punishments were given to Eve? 8. Why did God remove Adam and Eve from the garden? 9. Was the Garden of Eden destroyed in the story? 10. What gift did Cain bring to the Lord? 11. What was Cain’s punishment for killing Abel? 12. Where did Cain relocate to? 13. Who was the father of Enoch? 14. Who were the parents of Seth? 15. How long did Adam live? 16. How long did Methuselah live? 17. How long did God decided that humans should live? (see 6:3) 18. What were the measurements of Noah’s ark? 19. How many of each clean beast did Noah take with him? 20. Who shut the door to the ark? 21. How long did water cover the earth after the flood? 22. Where did the ark come to rest after the flood? 23. How did Noah know when the water had dried up? 24. What is Noah given permission to eat in 9:3? 25. What sign did God give that he would never again destroy the earth by flood? 26. Who were the three sons of Noah? 27. What was the intended purpose of the Tower of Babel? 28. Who was Abram’s father? 29. What land did God give to Abraham? 30. Who was Hagar? 31. Who was Hagar’s son? Who would his descendants be? 32. Who was Sarah’s son? 33. Why did Sarah make Abraham send Ishmael away? 34. Who were Isaac’s twin sons? 35. How did Jacob steal Esau’s birthright? 36. After Jacob wrestled with a Being at Peniel, what was his name changed to? 37. How did Rachel die? 38. How many sons did Jacob have? 39. Who gave Joseph the coat of many colors? 40. What awful thing did Joseph’s brothers do to him?

Study Questions for Edith Hamilton’s ​Mythology Read the listed sections of the book, and answer the questions in complete sentences. The Gods 1. Who were the ? Name the 9 of them. 2. What was ’ weapon? 3. Of what was protector? 4. What symbol did Neptune/ carry? 5. What did Pluto’s helmet do? 6. How was “born”? 7. What was the name of Athena’s temple, and what does it mean? 8. Who was the god of truth? 9. Where was the god of truth’s oracle? 10. What were the 3 forms of ? 11. Of what was Venus the goddess? 12. Where did Venus/ come from? 13. Who was the only ugly god? 14. What were the Vestals? 15. What were the distinctive signs of Mercury/? 16. Who was the god of war? 17. What was the bird of the god of war? 18. Who was represented as blindfolded? 19. Who was the goddess of the rainbow? 20. Who was the god of wine? 21. Who had goat hoofs and horns? 22. Identify the following: a. b. c. Charon d. Elysian Fields e. f. Satyrs g. Centaurs h. i. Sirens j. k. Furies

The Earliest Heroes 1. What was chained to a rock? 2. Who was punishing him? 3. What was Io turned into? 4. Who had one hundred eyes? 5. Who told Argus a story to put him to sleep? 6. What two bodies of water are named for Io? 7. Who was Io’s famous descendant? 8. What made Zeus fall in love with Europa? 9. What did Zeus change himself into? 10. Where did Zeus take Europa? 11. Name Europa’s two sons by Zeus. 12. How many men did Odysseus have with him? 13. Why couldn’t the men get out of Polyphemus’ cave? 14. How did the men get Polyphemus to go to sleep? 15. What did the men do with the hot spike? 16. How did the men get out of the cave? 17. With whom did Polyphemus later fall in love? 18. What happened to Acis? 19. Who was Demeter’s daughter? 20. What happened when she tried to pick the Narcissus? 21. What punishment did Hera give to ? 22. Who killed Hyacinth? 23. With what did he kill him? 24. When did Aphrodite first see Adonis? 25. What other goddess was in love with Adonis? 26. What killed Adonis?

Eight Brief Tales of Lovers 1. Why couldn’t Pyramus and Thisbe marry? 2. How did they talk with one another? 3. Why did Pyramus think Thisbe was dead? 4. Whose blood turned the mulberries red? 5. What did protect the Argonauts from? 6. How did Eurydice die? 7. Why did Eurydice have to return to ? 8. Where was Orpheus buried? 9. Whose son was Ceyx? 10. Who was ’s father? 11. Who did go to see? 12. Who was Morpheus? 13. What were Ceyx and Alcyone turned into? 14. Who was Pygmalion? 15. What was Galatea? 16. Which goddess made the statue come alive? 17. Which two gods visited Baucis and Philemon? 18. What did they give the gods to eat? 19. What did they turn into at the time of their deaths? 20. Which goddess fell in love with Endymion? 21. Which god was in love with ? 22. What tree did her father turn her into? 23. What did Artemis change into? 24. Where will a wooden cup thrown into the reappear?

The 1. What did Aphrodite promise to give Paris if he chose her the most beautiful of the goddesses? 2. Who became the king of Sparta? 3. Whom did Paris kidnap and take to Troy? 4. How did Odysseus try and avoid going to Troy? 5. What did Agamemnon do to make the wind stop blowing? 6. What caused the plague on the Greek army? 7. Which goddess insisted that the city of Troy be defeated? 8. Did Zeus support the Greeks or the Trojans? 9. What did Achilles do to Hector’s body? 10. How had Achilles’ mother made him invulnerable to injury? 11. How did Paris kill Achilles? 12. Who killed Paris and with what weapon? 13. Why did the Trojans think the horse had appeared? 14. Who is Astyanax, and what happened to him?