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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Tasty.
(c) Food.
(d) Fruit.

3. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Literature.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Men.
(d) Art.

4. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) The school.
(b) Herself.
(c) A thought.
(d) Her husband.

5. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Anger.
(b) Pity.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.

2. What year is this story set in?

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

4. What design is on the china at the women's college?

5. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

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