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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Platonic.

2. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be beaten and locked up.
(b) She could be elected governor.
(c) She could be executed.
(d) She could be kicked out of her house.

3. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A porcelain doll.
(b) A mule.
(c) A garden tool.
(d) A mirror.

4. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?
(a) Educated.
(b) Working-class.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Middle-class.

5. What color is "the light of emotion?"
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?

2. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?

3. In what century does the narrator believe women finally became complex characters in fiction?

4. The narrator says that "the majority of women are neither _______ nor courtesans."

5. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?

(see the answer key)

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