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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) Elaborate.
(b) Plain.
(c) Indian.
(d) Disgusting.

2. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"
(a) Women and Poverty.
(b) Women and Men.
(c) Women and Art.
(d) Women and Truth.

3. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) Woman's.
(b) The angry professor.
(c) God's.
(d) The narrator's own.

4. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A singing bird.
(b) A kissing couple.
(c) A cat with no tail.
(d) A clumsy beadle.

5. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Alice.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Mary.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is "the light of truth?"

2. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

3. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

4. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

5. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

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