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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 beaten and locked up.
(c) She could be kicked out of her house.
(d) She could be elected governor.

2. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Raising children.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Serving dinner.

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

4. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) Women's beauty.
(b) Their own superiority.
(c) Their money.
(d) World events.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?

2. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?

3. In what genre were women denied the most expression?

4. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."

5. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?

(see the answer key)

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