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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(b) By finding happiness.
(c) By working hard.
(d) By writing constantly.

2. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Literature.
(b) Men.
(c) Art.
(d) Themselves.

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

4. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?
(a) Her friend Mary.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A fly on the wall.
(d) The person reading next to her.

5. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1896.

Short Answer Questions

1. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

2. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

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

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

5. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

(see the answer key)

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