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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 clumsy beadle.
(d) A cat with no tail.

2. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Darby.
(b) Oxbridge.
(c) Fernham.
(d) Yale.

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

4. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(b) Sixty thousand dollars.
(c) Five hundred pounds.
(d) Two million dollars.

5. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and books.
(b) Women and poetry.
(c) Women and fiction.
(d) Women and men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

2. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?

3. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

4. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"

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

(see the answer key)

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