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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Williams.
(b) Frost.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Keats.

2. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."
(a) Fiction.
(b) Logic.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Argument.

3. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By working hard.
(b) By writing constantly.
(c) By finding happiness.
(d) By thinking that other people are inferior.

4. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Mary.
(b) Judith.
(c) Sue.
(d) Anna.

5. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Lop-sided.
(b) Happy.
(c) Chauvinistic.
(d) Inventive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

2. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?

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

4. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?

5. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?

(see the answer key)

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