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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?
(a) A laboratory.
(b) A lover.
(c) An apartment.
(d) An office.

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

3. In what genre were women denied the most expression?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Novels.
(c) Essays.
(d) Music.

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

5. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Rossetti.
(c) Rand.
(d) Bronte.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

2. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?

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

4. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?

5. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?

(see the answer key)

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