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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Mary.
(c) Alice.
(d) Virginia.

3. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
(a) The fish.
(b) The elephant.
(c) The anteater.
(d) The horse.

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

5. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Cutting the grass.
(b) Serving dinner.
(c) Chasing her out.
(d) Locking the gates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?

2. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

3. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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