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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By writing constantly.
(b) By finding happiness.
(c) By working hard.
(d) By thinking that other people are inferior.

2. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Italy.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

3. What color is "the light of truth?"
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

4. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"
(a) Women and Truth.
(b) Women and Men.
(c) Women and Poverty.
(d) Women and Art.

5. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?

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?

3. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?

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

5. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?

(see the answer key)

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