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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) The beadle.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The priest.
(d) Her mother.

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

3. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Olivia Price.
(b) Mary Seton.
(c) Joyce Brown.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

2. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?

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

4. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

5. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

(see the answer key)

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