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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was overbearing.
(b) She was ugly.
(c) She was cruel.
(d) She was an heiress.

2. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Work.
(b) Fun.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Art.

3. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?
(a) Their bodies.
(b) Their talent.
(c) Their investments.
(d) Their wits.

4. Of what social class was Behn?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Educated.
(c) Middle-class.
(d) Noble.

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?
(a) A Grecian funeral.
(b) None.
(c) Birds.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that "the majority of women are neither _______ nor courtesans."

2. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"

3. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

4. Dorothy Osborne claims that she would not resort to fiction even if she couldn't ________.

5. In terms of fiction, what things did society deem more important than women's feelings?

(see the answer key)

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