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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Cutting the grass.
(b) Serving dinner.
(c) Locking the gates.
(d) Chasing her out.

2. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?
(a) Wife-beating.
(b) Verbal abuse.
(c) Love-making.
(d) Writing about marriage.

3. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
(a) They all claim that women are inferior.
(b) They are all written by the same person.
(c) They are all written by women.
(d) Nothing. Each scholar has a differing opinion on them.

4. What tone best describes the poetry of Lady Winchilsea?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Happy.
(d) Indignant.

5. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 6:00 pm.
(b) 8:00 pm.
(c) 5:15 pm.
(d) 7:30 pm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?

2. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?

3. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?

4. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?

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

(see the answer key)

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