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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) The church.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her mother.

2. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
(a) The horse.
(b) The anteater.
(c) The elephant.
(d) The fish.

3. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
(a) Anger.
(b) Minds.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Hearts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

3. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

4. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?

5. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

(see the answer key)

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