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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By writing constantly.
(b) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(c) By finding happiness.
(d) By working hard.

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

4. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Happy.
(b) Lop-sided.
(c) Inventive.
(d) Chauvinistic.

5. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
(a) Rewriting history.
(b) Pulling teeth.
(c) Challenging authority.
(d) Crying wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

2. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?

3. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?

4. In the case of Charlotte Bronte, what does the narrator claim Bronte's gender interfered with?

5. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

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