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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"
(a) Women and Men.
(b) Women and Art.
(c) Women and Poverty.
(d) Women and Truth.

2. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1896.

3. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."
(a) Twentieth.
(b) Seventh.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

4. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A porcelain doll.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A mule.
(d) A garden tool.

5. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Lovers.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Scholars.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?

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

3. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

4. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?

5. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

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