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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) 13.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

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

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

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

5. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."
(a) Argument.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Logic.
(d) Fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is this story set in?

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

3. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?

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

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

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