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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A singing bird.
(b) A cat with no tail.
(c) A clumsy beadle.
(d) A kissing couple.

2. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."
(a) Fiction.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Argument.
(d) Logic.

3. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
(a) That she is alone.
(b) That England is under the rule of a patriarchy.
(c) That England is full of women.
(d) That she has not done any work.

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

5. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?
(a) That there are so few available.
(b) That they are all 100 years old.
(c) That there are so many written by men.
(d) That they are all so good.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?

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

3. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

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

5. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?

(see the answer key)

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