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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Keats.
(d) Flaubert.

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

3. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Anger.
(d) Heroism.

4. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The church.
(d) Her father.

5. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?
(a) They work at the same seamstress shop.
(b) They are married to the same man.
(c) They have no children.
(d) They are both happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator describe as "whimsically despotic?"

2. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"

3. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?

4. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

5. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

(see the answer key)

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