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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The church.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her husband.

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

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

4. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Yale.
(b) Darby.
(c) Fernham.
(d) Oxbridge.

5. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Rand.
(c) Rossetti.
(d) Bronte.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?

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

4. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

5. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."

(see the answer key)

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