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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) Elaborate.
(b) Disgusting.
(c) Plain.
(d) Indian.

2. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) October.
(d) January.

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The church.

4. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 13.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?

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

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. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?

(see the answer key)

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