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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 8:00 pm.
(b) 7:30 pm.
(c) 5:15 pm.
(d) 6:00 pm.

2. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Wore hats.
(b) Burned books in libraries.
(c) Never published their work.
(d) Wrote under a man's name.

3. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?
(a) In the swimming pool.
(b) In front of the chapel.
(c) In the library.
(d) At home.

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

5. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Covered them with blotting paper.
(b) Hid them under a book.
(c) Burned them.
(d) Pinned them to her dress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?

4. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."

5. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?

(see the answer key)

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