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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?
(a) In front of the chapel.
(b) At home.
(c) In the swimming pool.
(d) In the library.

2. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?
(a) Writer.
(b) Seamstress.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Actress.

3. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Lop-sided.
(b) Happy.
(c) Inventive.
(d) Chauvinistic.

4. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?
(a) A fly on the wall.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her friend Mary.
(d) The person reading next to her.

5. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?
(a) Anger.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Heroism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?

2. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?

3. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

4. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?

5. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

(see the answer key)

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