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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) Woman's.
(b) The narrator's own.
(c) God's.
(d) The angry professor.

2. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?
(a) Who his wife was.
(b) His state of mind when writing.
(c) Whether he was in love.
(d) How old he was.

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

4. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?
(a) Write the plays of Shakespeare.
(b) Attend college.
(c) Get a cat.
(d) Marry into money.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?

3. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

4. What is the source of the narrator's income?

5. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.

(see the answer key)

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