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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 compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A lamp in the spine.
(b) A happy child.
(c) A fine wine.
(d) A good night's rest.

2. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Olivia Price.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Mary Seton.
(d) Joyce Brown.

3. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Lovers.
(b) Women.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Scholars.

4. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and books.
(b) Women and fiction.
(c) Women and poetry.
(d) Women and men.

5. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?
(a) Gone With the Wind.
(b) The Visitor.
(c) Pride and Prejudice.
(d) War and Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Behn's first name?

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

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

4. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?

5. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?

(see the answer key)

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