"Jane Slayre": "Jane Eyre" meets "Buffy Summers" Quiz

Answer: Her late Uncle Reed visited her one night and told her so.

Her Uncle Reed had become a vampire (or vampyre, as they were called in the book) one evening while he was bringing young orphaned Jane to live at his home. Once his wife found out, she wanted to be one too and then insisted that their children become vampires also.

But Uncle Reed hated being a vampire and hired a slayer to kill him. He now wanted Jane to find her living relatives to pursue training with them and then come back to free his family.

Answer: He reanimated dead students and sold them as servants.

Jane's friend, Helen Burns, told her that a Bokor was a voodoo priest who can create zombies. Jane began to suspect that several of the students at Lowood might be zombies since they reminded her of the Reeds's maid, Abbot, who it turned out was a former student at Lowood. Mr. Bokorhurst would "harvest" dead students and turn them into zombies. Apparently, zombies made excellent domestic servants as long as they didn't eat meat (one taste and they'd go after any flesh they could find).

Answer: Chopped off her head

Unlike the rest of the girls who died from typhus, Helen Burns had tuberculosis and had been getting worse over time. When Jane found Helen sitting with the other "special students", she hoped that it really was true that Helen had recovered from her illness, but a look into Helen's blank eyes confirmed her worst fears: Helen was a zombie. Jane had no choice but to lob off her head to free her soul.

Answer: Lord Ingram

It was the morning that Rochester sent Richard Mason to the doctor's home. After the carriage left, Rochester and Jane stayed in the garden. Jane spotted Lord Ingram's smoking corpse under a bush; as the sun rose, more of the flesh was devoured. To explain Lord Ingram's disappearance, Rochester told the others that Lord Ingram had left early in the morning with Mason for London.

Answer: To stake her through the heart

Although Aunt Reed had initially been thrilled to be a vampire, she had grown weary of it and now wanted to join her husband in heaven. She had suffered a stroke, which surprised Jane - she didn't know that immortals could suffer strokes. After giving Jane a letter from Jane's fraternal uncle, Aunt Reed asked Jane to let her join her husband. Jane obliged but was a bit disturbed to do so.

Afterwards she wished that Abbot, the Reeds's late zombie maid, was still around: "Nothing like a little zombie beheading to take the edge off staking one's aunt".

Answer: Werewolf

When Rochester married Bertha Mason, she was merely on track to becoming a lunatic. But one of her affairs was with a man who was a werewolf, and she became one too after he bit her. Rochester brought her back to Thornfield and locked her in the attic under the care of Grace Poole. Bertha would occasionally get out, however, leading to massacred cows and the odd charwoman around the grounds of Thornfield.

Answer: Her cousin, Georgiana Reed

Jane's cousin, Georgiana Reed, enjoyed being a vampire. Following her mother's death, she went to London to live with her maternal uncle. She soon killed him, as she did a couple of suitors. She then became the leader of a band of vampires who wandered the countryside looking for victims. St. John Rivers had been following them, and he and Jane killed them all.

Answer: He made weapons for slaying vampires.

When Jane first met St. John Rivers, she was amazed at the speed with which he could kill vampires. He had developed a device that could shoot a stake from a short distance, but it required reloading. Jane helped him develop a rapid-fire crossbow and a six-stake shooter that Jane called the "stake-o-matic". St. John Rivers became very impressed with Jane's vampire slaying skills and he asked her to join him when he moved to India, where they had a vampire infestation, but she declined; she was still in love with Rochester.

Answer: He was a werewolf.

His werewolf wife, Bertha, had set fire to Thornfield Manor, and when he tried to rescue her, she bit him, turning him into a werewolf. Blind from the fire, he went to live with his servants, John and Mary, in a home that he owned in the forest. Every full moon, they would lock him in the attic.

Answer: "Reader, I buried him."

This may seem like an awfully picky question, but the phrase "Reader, I married him" is perhaps the best known from "Jane Eyre". The variation in "Jane Slayre" had to bring a chuckle. Jane's Uncle John from Madeira had been working on a cure for lycanthropy (werewolfitis), and Jane followed the instructions from his journal.

She bound Rochester's hands and feet with silver chains, made him drink a potion and then buried him on the rising of the next full moon. In the morning, he was dug up and was no longer a werewolf.