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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Food.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Tasty.

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

4. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A pen and paper.
(b) Some money and a room of her own.
(c) A loving husband.
(d) A college education.

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?
(a) None.
(b) Birds.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A Grecian funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"

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

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

4. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

5. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

(see the answer key)

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