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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) Serving dinner.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Raising children.

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

3. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Serving dinner.
(b) Locking the gates.
(c) Cutting the grass.
(d) Chasing her out.

4. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be beaten and locked up.
(b) She could be kicked out of her house.
(c) She could be elected governor.
(d) She could be executed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?

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

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

4. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

5. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

(see the answer key)

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