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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?
(a) April.
(b) January.
(c) May.
(d) October.

2. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) Her husband.
(b) A thought.
(c) Herself.
(d) The school.

3. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?
(a) Verbal abuse.
(b) Love-making.
(c) Wife-beating.
(d) Writing about marriage.

4. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Fernham.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxbridge.
(d) Oxford.

5. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Judith.
(b) Anna.
(c) Sue.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

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

4. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

5. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

(see the answer key)

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