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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She is murdered.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She falls of a horse.

2. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 13.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1896.

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

5. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?
(a) Her talent.
(b) Her life.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

2. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?

3. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

4. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?

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

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