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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) Disgusting.
(b) Plain.
(c) Indian.
(d) Elaborate.

2. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?
(a) An apartment.
(b) A lover.
(c) A laboratory.
(d) An office.

3. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be executed.
(b) She could be elected governor.
(c) She could be beaten and locked up.
(d) She could be kicked out of her house.

4. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?
(a) Whether he was in love.
(b) His state of mind when writing.
(c) Who his wife was.
(d) How old he was.

5. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?
(a) Suffrage.
(b) Reading and criticism.
(c) Humor and hard work.
(d) Persistence and advocacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?

2. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"

3. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?

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

5. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."

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