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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?
(a) Property.
(b) A queen.
(c) An employee.
(d) An equal.

2. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
(a) Crying wolf.
(b) Rewriting history.
(c) Challenging authority.
(d) Pulling teeth.

3. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Keats.
(d) Rousseau.

4. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Pity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sadness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

2. What color is "the light of truth?"

3. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?

4. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?

5. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?

(see the answer key)

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