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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 served at the Fernham dinner?
(a) Exotic.
(b) Inedible.
(c) Expensive.
(d) Plain.

2. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A kissing couple.
(b) A singing bird.
(c) A cat with no tail.
(d) A clumsy beadle.

3. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) A thought.
(b) The school.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her husband.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?

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

4. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?

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

(see the answer key)

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