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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Never published their work.
(b) Wore hats.
(c) Burned books in libraries.
(d) Wrote under a man's name.

2. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.
(a) Truth.
(b) History.
(c) Love.
(d) Myrrh.

3. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was an heiress.
(b) She was cruel.
(c) She was overbearing.
(d) She was ugly.

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

5. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) Indian.
(b) Disgusting.
(c) Plain.
(d) Elaborate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

2. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

3. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

4. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?

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

(see the answer key)

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