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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Joyce Brown.
(b) Mary Seton.
(c) Olivia Price.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

3. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Serving dinner.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Raising children.

4. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A pen and paper.
(b) A loving husband.
(c) Some money and a room of her own.
(d) A college education.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is this story set in?

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

3. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

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

5. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?

(see the answer key)

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