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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Oxbridge.
(d) Fernham.

4. What does the narrator say is the problem with the relationships between women in fiction?
(a) They are too complex.
(b) They are too simple.
(c) They are not realistic.
(d) They do not exist.

5. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."
(a) Lessons in truth.
(b) Shakespeare's plays.
(c) Female characters.
(d) Contemporary works of fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?

2. What is the source of the narrator's income?

3. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

4. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?

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

(see the answer key)

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