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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?
(a) Ten shilling.
(b) Five shilling.
(c) One hundred dollar.
(d) One dollar.

2. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A black hole.
(b) A machine.
(c) A circus.
(d) A retreat.

3. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Life.
(c) History.
(d) Fiction.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much income does the narrator receive per year?

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

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?

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

5. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?

(see the answer key)

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