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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is this story set in?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1965.

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?
(a) That there are so few available.
(b) That there are so many written by men.
(c) That they are all so good.
(d) That they are all 100 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

2. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

3. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?

4. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

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

(see the answer key)

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