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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) Women and Men.
(b) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(c) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(d) Women and Fiction.

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

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The church.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her husband.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"

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

3. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

4. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?

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