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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 suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) World events.
(b) Their money.
(c) Their own superiority.
(d) Women's beauty.

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Tasty.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Food.
(d) Vegetables.

3. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Rand.
(c) Rossetti.
(d) Bronte.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?

3. In what year were women granted the right to vote?

4. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?

5. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?

(see the answer key)

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