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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
(a) Nothing. Each scholar has a differing opinion on them.
(b) They are all written by women.
(c) They are all written by the same person.
(d) They all claim that women are inferior.

2. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) The church.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her father.

3. Why did Behn start writing for money?
(a) She started a newspaper.
(b) Her husband died.
(c) Her husband lost his job.
(d) She was discovered by an agency.

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

5. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A circus.
(b) A machine.
(c) A retreat.
(d) A black hole.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."

3. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?

4. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"

5. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

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