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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Behn start writing for money?
(a) She started a newspaper.
(b) Her husband lost his job.
(c) She was discovered by an agency.
(d) Her husband died.

2. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?
(a) Tearing the pages of a book.
(b) Falling asleep.
(c) Crying.
(d) Drawing a picture of the Professor.

3. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?
(a) Anonymity.
(b) Anger.
(c) Humility.
(d) Vanity.

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

5. 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) Rossetti.
(b) Bronte.
(c) Dickinson.
(d) Rand.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.

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

3. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

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

5. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?

(see the answer key)

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