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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Serving dinner.
(c) Raising children.
(d) Sleeping.

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

3. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A porcelain doll.
(b) A garden tool.
(c) A mule.
(d) A mirror.

4. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Battleground.
(b) Holiday.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Struggle.

5. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Literature.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Men.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?

3. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

4. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?

5. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

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