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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?
(a) That there are so few available.
(b) That there are so many written by men.
(c) That they are all so good.
(d) That they are all 100 years old.

2. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being locked in.
(b) Being poor.
(c) Being the key.
(d) Being married.

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

4. Why did Behn start writing for money?
(a) Her husband died.
(b) Her husband lost his job.
(c) She started a newspaper.
(d) She was discovered by an agency.

5. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A porcelain doll.
(c) A mule.
(d) A garden tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?

2. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?

3. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."

4. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?

5. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?

(see the answer key)

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