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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Cutting the grass.
(b) Serving dinner.
(c) Chasing her out.
(d) Locking the gates.

3. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
(a) Dreams.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hearts.
(d) Minds.

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

5. What is Carmichael's novel called?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) Women and Fiction.
(c) Life's Adventure.
(d) My Story.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

3. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

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

5. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?

(see the answer key)

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