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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Keats.
(b) Frost.
(c) Williams.
(d) Tennyson.

2. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
(a) The anteater.
(b) The fish.
(c) The horse.
(d) The elephant.

3. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(b) "Most women have no character at all."
(c) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(d) "Women are equal in all ways to men."

4. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The beadle.
(d) The priest.

5. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
(a) Hearts.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Anger.
(d) Minds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

2. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?

3. What color is "the light of emotion?"

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. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?

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