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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 compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A fine wine.
(b) A happy child.
(c) A lamp in the spine.
(d) A good night's rest.

2. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being the key.
(b) Being poor.
(c) Being locked in.
(d) Being married.

3. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The beadle.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The priest.

4. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A machine.
(b) A circus.
(c) A retreat.
(d) A black hole.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?

2. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

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

4. What color is "the light of truth?"

5. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

(see the answer key)

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