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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Burned books in libraries.
(b) Never published their work.
(c) Wrote under a man's name.
(d) Wore hats.

2. In talking about Carmichael's novel, what does the narrator find herself slipping "unthinkably" into?
(a) Praise of her own sex.
(b) Respect for a female writer.
(c) Anger.
(d) Rhyme.

3. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Life.
(c) History.
(d) Fiction.

4. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
(a) The elephant.
(b) The fish.
(c) The anteater.
(d) The horse.

5. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Sue.
(b) Judith.
(c) Mary.
(d) Anna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is hard to measure?

2. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

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

4. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.

5. What color is "the light of emotion?"

(see the answer key)

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