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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?
(a) Expensive.
(b) Exotic.
(c) Inedible.
(d) Plain.

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

4. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being locked in.
(b) Being the key.
(c) Being married.
(d) Being poor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What year is this story set in?

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

4. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?

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

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