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

2. What things does Carmichael not possess enough of, according to the narrator?
(a) Idleness.
(b) Time.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Money.

3. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
(a) They are all written by women.
(b) They all claim that women are inferior.
(c) They are all written by the same person.
(d) Nothing. Each scholar has a differing opinion on them.

4. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"
(a) Reason.
(b) Truth.
(c) Femininity.
(d) Men.

5. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) God's.
(b) The narrator's own.
(c) The angry professor.
(d) Woman's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?

2. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?

3. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"

4. In how many years does the narrator expect for writers like Carmichael to become great?

5. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?

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