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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was cruel.
(b) She was an heiress.
(c) She was ugly.
(d) She was overbearing.

2. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Inventing a word.
(b) Framing a sentence.
(c) Painting.
(d) Singing.

3. What year is this story set in?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1920.

4. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?
(a) 1661.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1553.
(d) 1905.

5. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Raising children.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Serving dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."

2. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?

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

4. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

5. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?

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