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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the end of her research, whose books does the narrator come to?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) The living.
(d) Her own.

3. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.
(a) Richer.
(b) Inferior.
(c) Poorer.
(d) Smarter.

4. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?
(a) A lover.
(b) A laboratory.
(c) An apartment.
(d) An office.

5. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Battleground.
(b) Holiday.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

2. What occupation are Chloe and Olivia engaged in?

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

4. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?

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

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