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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) Indian.
(b) Plain.
(c) Elaborate.
(d) Disgusting.

2. 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) Rossetti.
(b) Dickinson.
(c) Bronte.
(d) Rand.

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

4. What year is this story set in?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1860.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?

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

4. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

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

(see the answer key)

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