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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the source of the narrator's income?
(a) A writing job.
(b) A seamstress job.
(c) An inheritance.
(d) A divorce settlement.

2. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"
(a) Romance.
(b) The news.
(c) History.
(d) Poetry.

3. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?
(a) Elizabethan.
(b) Golden.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Roaring Twenties.

4. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?
(a) By paying someone to give him a part in a play.
(b) By cleaning the auditorium.
(c) By writing plays for actors.
(d) By holding horses at the stage door.

5. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?
(a) A writer.
(b) A hypocrite.
(c) A real person.
(d) A genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator use as a less offensive word for "vanities?"

2. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?

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

4. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

5. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?

(see the answer key)

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