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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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