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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 "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
(a) Minds.
(b) Hearts.
(c) Anger.
(d) Dreams.

2. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) Keats.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Flaubert.

3. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Food.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Tasty.
(d) Fruit.

4. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was cruel.
(b) She was overbearing.
(c) She was ugly.
(d) She was an heiress.

5. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?
(a) An observer.
(b) A writer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the case of Charlotte Bronte, what does the narrator claim Bronte's gender interfered with?

2. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

3. For how much did Bronte sell the copyright of her novels?

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

5. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?

(see the answer key)

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