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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?
(a) Tearing the pages of a book.
(b) Crying.
(c) Drawing a picture of the Professor.
(d) Falling asleep.

3. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?
(a) Love-making.
(b) Verbal abuse.
(c) Wife-beating.
(d) Writing about marriage.

4. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?
(a) The Visitor.
(b) Gone With the Wind.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) War and Peace.

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?
(a) A Grecian funeral.
(b) Birds.
(c) None.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?

2. According to the narrator, what holds a novel together?

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?

4. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?

5. Who is the author of Jane Eyre?

(see the answer key)

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