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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?
(a) Anger.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Humility.
(d) Anonymity.

2. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(b) Women and Fiction.
(c) Women and Men.
(d) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.

3. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) History.
(b) Life.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Sonnets.

4. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Covered them with blotting paper.
(b) Hid them under a book.
(c) Burned them.
(d) Pinned them to her dress.

5. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?
(a) History.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Art.
(d) Television.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Behn start writing for money?

2. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.

3. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

4. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."

5. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?

(see the answer key)

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