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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To raise more than two children.
(b) To live in the city.
(c) To marry someone handsome.
(d) To have a room of her own.

2. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(b) Women and Fiction.
(c) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(d) Women and Men.

3. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A thought.
(d) The school.

4. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
(a) The elephant.
(b) The anteater.
(c) The fish.
(d) The horse.

5. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?

3. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

4. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

5. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?

(see the answer key)

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