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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Never published their work.
(b) Wore hats.
(c) Wrote under a man's name.
(d) Burned books in libraries.

2. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Women.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Scholars.

3. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 8:00 pm.
(b) 7:30 pm.
(c) 5:15 pm.
(d) 6:00 pm.

4. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?
(a) London.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

5. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?
(a) 1661.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1553.
(d) 1800.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?

2. Compared to Jane Eyre, how long is Carmichael's book?

3. What is the source of the narrator's income?

4. In what year were women granted the right to vote?

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

(see the answer key)

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