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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) History.
(b) Sonnets.
(c) Life.
(d) Fiction.

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

3. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Holiday.
(b) Battleground.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Marriage.

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

5. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Women.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Scholars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?

2. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?

3. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

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

5. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?

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