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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?
(a) Verbal abuse.
(b) Writing about marriage.
(c) Love-making.
(d) Wife-beating.

2. What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man?
(a) Turns him on.
(b) Pushes him away.
(c) Invigorates him.
(d) Makes him angry.

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

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

5. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.
(a) Strife.
(b) Differences.
(c) Passion.
(d) Similarities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What phrase in Carmichael's novel startles the narrator and starts her reflection on women as characters?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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