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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Cutting the grass.
(b) Locking the gates.
(c) Serving dinner.
(d) Chasing her out.

2. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) A loadstone.
(c) Manure.
(d) A gift from Heaven.

3. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and men.
(b) Women and poetry.
(c) Women and fiction.
(d) Women and books.

4. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.
(a) Myrrh.
(b) History.
(c) Truth.
(d) Love.

5. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 8:00 pm.
(b) 5:15 pm.
(c) 7:30 pm.
(d) 6:00 pm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?

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

3. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?

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

5. What year is this story set in?

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