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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Fernham.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxbridge.
(d) Oxford.

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

3. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Joyce Brown.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Olivia Price.
(d) Mary Seton.

4. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The church.

5. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and men.
(b) Women and fiction.
(c) Women and books.
(d) Women and poetry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?

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

4. What design is on the china at the women's college?

5. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?

(see the answer key)

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