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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Work.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Fun.
(d) Art.

2. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(b) "Women are equal in all ways to men."
(c) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(d) "Most women have no character at all."

3. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?
(a) Seamstress.
(b) Writer.
(c) Actress.
(d) Waitress.

4. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?
(a) Humility.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Anonymity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?

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

3. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?

4. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?

5. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."

(see the answer key)

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