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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, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(b) By finding happiness.
(c) By working hard.
(d) By writing constantly.

2. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Women and the fiction they write.
(d) Women and what they are like.

3. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?
(a) Art.
(b) Television.
(c) History.
(d) Poetry.

4. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Worms.
(c) Bats.
(d) Owls.

5. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Keats.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?

2. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

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

4. What color is "the light of emotion?"

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

(see the answer key)

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