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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?
(a) The church.
(b) The library.
(c) The dining hall.
(d) The dormitory.

2. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pity.

3. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
(a) Math.
(b) English.
(c) Science.
(d) Latin.

4. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A loving husband.
(b) Some money and a room of her own.
(c) A college education.
(d) A pen and paper.

5. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Five hundred pounds.
(b) Sixty thousand dollars.
(c) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(d) Two million dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

2. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?

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

4. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

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

(see the answer key)

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