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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?
(a) One dollar.
(b) Ten shilling.
(c) One hundred dollar.
(d) Five shilling.

3. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Struggle.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Battleground.
(d) Holiday.

4. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?
(a) The library.
(b) The dining hall.
(c) The dormitory.
(d) The church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Jane Eyre?

2. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?

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

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

5. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

(see the answer key)

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