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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is this story set in?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1920.

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

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

4. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Flaubert.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Keats.

5. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(c) Women and what they are like.
(d) Women and the fiction they write.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?

2. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?

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

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

5. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?

(see the answer key)

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