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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?
(a) The dining hall.
(b) The dormitory.
(c) The church.
(d) The library.

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

3. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?
(a) A voice.
(b) An audience.
(c) Talent.
(d) A name.

4. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Women are equal in all ways to men."
(b) "Most women have no character at all."
(c) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(d) "Women are essential and hopeful."

5. Of what social class was Behn?
(a) Noble.
(b) Middle-class.
(c) Educated.
(d) Royalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tone best describes the poetry of Lady Winchilsea?

2. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

3. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?

4. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?

5. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?

(see the answer key)

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