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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A clumsy beadle.
(b) A kissing couple.
(c) A cat with no tail.
(d) A singing bird.

3. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?
(a) Tearing the pages of a book.
(b) Falling asleep.
(c) Crying.
(d) Drawing a picture of the Professor.

4. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 13.

5. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."
(a) Contemporary works of fiction.
(b) Shakespeare's plays.
(c) Female characters.
(d) Lessons in truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

3. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?

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

5. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."

(see the answer key)

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