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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Sixty thousand dollars.
(b) Two million dollars.
(c) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(d) Five hundred pounds.

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

5. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Raising children.
(c) Serving dinner.
(d) Shopping.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?

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

5. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?

(see the answer key)

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