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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) Women and Men.
(b) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(c) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(d) Women and Fiction.

2. What does the narrator find awkward about Carmichael's writing?
(a) Her story.
(b) Her style.
(c) Her vocabulary.
(d) Her tone.

3. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Work.
(b) Fun.
(c) Art.
(d) Therapy.

4. What color is "the light of truth?"
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

5. At the end of her research, whose books does the narrator come to?
(a) The living.
(b) Bronte.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Her own.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?

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

3. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."

4. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

5. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?

(see the answer key)

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