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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The church.
(d) Her husband.

2. What does the narrator say is hard to measure?
(a) Her own intelligence.
(b) A man's education.
(c) Talent.
(d) A woman.

3. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Owls.
(c) Worms.
(d) Bats.

4. In the case of Charlotte Bronte, what does the narrator claim Bronte's gender interfered with?
(a) The tone of the novel.
(b) The novel's integrity.
(c) Her happiness.
(d) The reader.

5. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) The school.
(b) A thought.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Herself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?

3. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.

4. In terms of fiction, what things did society deem more important than women's feelings?

5. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?

(see the answer key)

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