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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 13.
(d) 5.

3. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and poetry.
(b) Women and fiction.
(c) Women and books.
(d) Women and men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?

3. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

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

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

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