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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator use as a less offensive word for "vanities?"
(a) Happinesses.
(b) Habits.
(c) Peculiarities.
(d) Similarities.

2. Dorothy Osborne claims that she would not resort to fiction even if she couldn't ________.
(a) Live.
(b) Write.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

3. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A singing bird.
(b) A kissing couple.
(c) A clumsy beadle.
(d) A cat with no tail.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

2. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

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

4. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?

5. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

(see the answer key)

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