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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Olivia Price.
(c) Joyce Brown.
(d) Mary Seton.

3. What design is on the china at the women's college?
(a) A Grecian funeral.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Birds.
(d) None.

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

5. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A pen and paper.
(b) A college education.
(c) A loving husband.
(d) Some money and a room of her own.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?

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

4. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?

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

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