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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Rossetti.
(b) Dickinson.
(c) Bronte.
(d) Rand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"

2. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?

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

4. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

5. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

(see the answer key)

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