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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being married.
(b) Being the key.
(c) Being poor.
(d) Being locked in.

3. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Italy.
(d) Tennessee.

4. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) The narrator's own.
(b) The angry professor.
(c) God's.
(d) Woman's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?

2. What color is "the light of truth?"

3. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

4. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

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

(see the answer key)

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