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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1661.
(d) 1553.

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

3. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?
(a) A queen.
(b) An employee.
(c) An equal.
(d) Property.

4. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and poetry.
(b) Women and books.
(c) Women and men.
(d) Women and fiction.

5. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She falls of a horse.
(b) She is murdered.
(c) She dies in childbirth.
(d) She kills herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.

2. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

3. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

4. For how much did Bronte sell the copyright of her novels?

5. What year is this story set in?

(see the answer key)

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