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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) Manure.
(c) A gift from Heaven.
(d) A loadstone.

3. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The fish.
(b) The wasp.
(c) The spider.
(d) The horse.

4. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.
(a) Happy.
(b) Clouded.
(c) Perverted.
(d) Incandescent.

5. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Williams.
(b) Keats.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Frost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?

2. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?

3. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

4. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

5. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."

(see the answer key)

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