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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?
(a) Home.
(b) To her mother's house.
(c) To the college.
(d) To have lunch.

2. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pity.
(d) Sadness.

3. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."
(a) Harpies.
(b) Kids.
(c) Employees.
(d) Blue-stockings.

4. What color is "the light of emotion?"
(a) Yellow.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

5. What element of Jane Austen's does Carmichael "break up?"
(a) The hyperbole.
(b) The imagination.
(c) The story.
(d) The sentence.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?

2. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

3. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?

4. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?

5. In talking about Carmichael's novel, what does the narrator find herself slipping "unthinkably" into?

(see the answer key)

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