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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is "the light of truth?"
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

2. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and the fiction they write.
(b) Women and what they are like.
(c) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(d) All of the above.

3. 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) A loadstone.
(b) Manure.
(c) A gift from Heaven.
(d) An avalanche.

4. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The wasp.
(b) The spider.
(c) The fish.
(d) The horse.

5. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A mule.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A garden tool.
(d) A porcelain doll.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were women granted the right to vote?

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

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

5. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?

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