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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Yale.
(b) Darby.
(c) Oxbridge.
(d) Fernham.

5. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) A thought.
(b) Herself.
(c) The school.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?

2. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?

3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?

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

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?

(see the answer key)

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