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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?
(a) Home.
(b) To her mother's house.
(c) To have lunch.
(d) To the college.

2. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 13.

3. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"
(a) Reason.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Truth.
(d) Men.

4. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Seventh.
(c) Twentieth.
(d) Nineteenth.

5. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) The church.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In talking about Carmichael's novel, what does the narrator find herself slipping "unthinkably" into?

2. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

3. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?

4. What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man?

5. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?

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