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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) Woman's.
(b) The narrator's own.
(c) God's.
(d) The angry professor.

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

3. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Keats.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Frost.
(d) Williams.

4. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?
(a) Educated.
(b) Middle-class.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Working-class.

5. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?
(a) Writing about marriage.
(b) Wife-beating.
(c) Love-making.
(d) Verbal abuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

2. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"

3. What color is "the light of emotion?"

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

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

(see the answer key)

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