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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom does the narrator say "she wrote as a woman, but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman?"
(a) Mary Carmichael.
(b) Judith.
(c) Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Jane Austen.

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

3. To what physical trait does the narrator compare these vanities?
(a) A wart.
(b) A few too many pounds on the hips.
(c) A dark spot at the back of the head.
(d) A pimple.

4. What does the narrator use as a less offensive word for "vanities?"
(a) Peculiarities.
(b) Happinesses.
(c) Habits.
(d) Similarities.

5. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By working hard.
(b) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(c) By writing constantly.
(d) By finding happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?

2. What is the source of the narrator's income?

3. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

4. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?

5. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

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