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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?
(a) That they are all 100 years old.
(b) That there are so many written by men.
(c) That there are so few available.
(d) That they are all so good.

2. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Burned them.
(b) Pinned them to her dress.
(c) Hid them under a book.
(d) Covered them with blotting paper.

3. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?
(a) Writer.
(b) Seamstress.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Actress.

4. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?
(a) Plain.
(b) Inedible.
(c) Expensive.
(d) Exotic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

2. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?

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

4. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?

5. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.

(see the answer key)

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