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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sue.
(c) Anna.
(d) Judith.

2. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) Herself.
(b) The school.
(c) A thought.
(d) Her husband.

3. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?
(a) Wife-beating.
(b) Verbal abuse.
(c) Love-making.
(d) Writing about marriage.

4. In what genre were women denied the most expression?
(a) Novels.
(b) Essays.
(c) Music.
(d) Poetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?

2. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?

3. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?

4. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

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

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