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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much income does the narrator receive per year?
(a) 500 pounds.
(b) One thousand pounds.
(c) Ten million pounds.
(d) One thousand dollars.

2. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A mule.
(b) A garden tool.
(c) A porcelain doll.
(d) A mirror.

3. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) Their own superiority.
(b) Their money.
(c) World events.
(d) Women's beauty.

4. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being the key.
(b) Being locked in.
(c) Being poor.
(d) Being married.

5. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A lamp in the spine.
(b) A happy child.
(c) A good night's rest.
(d) A fine wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?

2. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?

3. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

4. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

5. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

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