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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is this story set in?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1965.

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

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

4. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Serving dinner.
(b) Chasing her out.
(c) Locking the gates.
(d) Cutting the grass.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

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

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

5. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

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