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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 one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A retreat.
(b) A circus.
(c) A machine.
(d) A black hole.

2. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She is murdered.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She falls of a horse.

3. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.
(a) History.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Myrrh.

4. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?
(a) Humor and hard work.
(b) Reading and criticism.
(c) Suffrage.
(d) Persistence and advocacy.

5. Compared to Jane Eyre, how long is Carmichael's book?
(a) About half the length.
(b) Twice as long.
(c) Only a few pages longer.
(d) The same length.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

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

3. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?

4. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?

5. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?

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