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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?
(a) The church.
(b) The dining hall.
(c) The library.
(d) The dormitory.

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

3. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
(a) English.
(b) Science.
(c) Latin.
(d) Math.

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

5. 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) Bronte.
(c) Dickinson.
(d) Rossetti.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

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

4. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

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

(see the answer key)

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