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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) October.
(d) November.

2. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?
(a) Home.
(b) To the college.
(c) To have lunch.
(d) To her mother's house.

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

4. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?
(a) A writer.
(b) A real person.
(c) A hypocrite.
(d) A genius.

5. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?
(a) Platonic.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Sexual.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What element of Jane Austen's does Carmichael "break up?"

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

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

5. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

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