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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Pity.

3. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and what they are like.
(b) Women and the fiction they write.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Women and the fiction that is written about them.

4. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Food.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Tasty.
(d) Fruit.

5. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?
(a) To have lunch.
(b) To her mother's house.
(c) To the college.
(d) Home.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?

2. What design is on the china at the women's college?

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

4. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

5. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

(see the answer key)

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