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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
(a) A blind man reading a book.
(b) A dog walking on its hind legs.
(c) A dead person coming back to life.
(d) A man wearing a dress.

2. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?
(a) Their wits.
(b) Their investments.
(c) Their talent.
(d) Their bodies.

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

4. What is the source of the narrator's income?
(a) A divorce settlement.
(b) A writing job.
(c) A seamstress job.
(d) An inheritance.

5. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her life.
(c) Her mind.
(d) Her talent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did writing become with the example of Behn?

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

3. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

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

5. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

(see the answer key)

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