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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Tasty.
(d) Food.

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

5. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 5:15 pm.
(b) 6:00 pm.
(c) 8:00 pm.
(d) 7:30 pm.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

4. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

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

(see the answer key)

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