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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Nineteenth.
(c) Twentieth.
(d) Seventh.

2. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Mary.
(c) Alice.
(d) Joyce.

3. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A good night's rest.
(b) A lamp in the spine.
(c) A fine wine.
(d) A happy child.

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

5. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Oxbridge.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Fernham.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?

2. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

3. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?

4. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?

5. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

(see the answer key)

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