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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is "the light of emotion?"
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

2. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The priest.
(d) The beadle.

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

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

5. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 13.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

2. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

3. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?

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

5. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?

(see the answer key)

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