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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 say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Serving dinner.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Sleeping.

2. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
(a) Manure.
(b) An avalanche.
(c) A gift from Heaven.
(d) A loadstone.

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

4. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A loving husband.
(b) A pen and paper.
(c) Some money and a room of her own.
(d) A college education.

5. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(b) Women and Men.
(c) Women and Fiction.
(d) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

2. What color is "the light of emotion?"

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

4. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

5. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?

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