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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
(a) They are all written by women.
(b) They are all written by the same person.
(c) They all claim that women are inferior.
(d) Nothing. Each scholar has a differing opinion on them.

2. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 8:00 pm.
(b) 7:30 pm.
(c) 5:15 pm.
(d) 6:00 pm.

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

4. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Women and the fiction they write.
(d) Women and what they are like.

5. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(b) Women and Men.
(c) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(d) Women and Fiction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

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

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

5. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?

(see the answer key)

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