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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Sixty thousand dollars.
(b) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(c) Five hundred pounds.
(d) Two million dollars.

2. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"
(a) Romance.
(b) The news.
(c) Poetry.
(d) History.

3. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Painting.
(b) Singing.
(c) Inventing a word.
(d) Framing a sentence.

4. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
(a) That she is alone.
(b) That England is full of women.
(c) That she has not done any work.
(d) That England is under the rule of a patriarchy.

5. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Locking the gates.
(b) Serving dinner.
(c) Cutting the grass.
(d) Chasing her out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What design is on the china at the women's college?

2. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?

3. The narrator claims that a book is built of "_________ built...into arcades or domes."

4. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?

5. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?

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