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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) Indian.
(b) Disgusting.
(c) Plain.
(d) Elaborate.

4. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A garden tool.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A porcelain doll.
(d) A mule.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?

2. What year is this story set in?

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

4. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

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

(see the answer key)

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