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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A black hole.
(b) A retreat.
(c) A machine.
(d) A circus.

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

4. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?
(a) Middle-class.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Working-class.
(d) Educated.

5. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Anger.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Heroism.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

2. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?

3. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."

4. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."

5. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?

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