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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A circus.
(b) A retreat.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A machine.

2. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(b) Women and the fiction they write.
(c) Women and what they are like.
(d) All of the above.

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

4. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The horse.
(b) The wasp.
(c) The spider.
(d) The fish.

5. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her father.
(b) The church.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

2. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

3. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."

4. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?

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

(see the answer key)

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