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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and the fiction they write.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(d) Women and what they are like.

2. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
(a) English.
(b) Science.
(c) Latin.
(d) Math.

3. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(b) "Women are equal in all ways to men."
(c) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(d) "Most women have no character at all."

4. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1950.

5. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being married.
(b) Being the key.
(c) Being poor.
(d) Being locked in.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."

4. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

5. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?

(see the answer key)

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