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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?
(a) In front of the chapel.
(b) In the swimming pool.
(c) In the library.
(d) At home.

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

3. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The horse.
(b) The wasp.
(c) The fish.
(d) The spider.

4. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?
(a) Hugh Smith.
(b) Nick Greene.
(c) Lars Ulster.
(d) Lord Byron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?

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

3. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?

4. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?

5. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

(see the answer key)

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