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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) Disgusting.
(b) Plain.
(c) Indian.
(d) Elaborate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?

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

3. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

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

5. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

(see the answer key)

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