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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Behn start writing for money?
(a) She started a newspaper.
(b) Her husband died.
(c) Her husband lost his job.
(d) She was discovered by an agency.

2. Who is the author of Jane Eyre?
(a) Jane Austen.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

3. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
(a) A dog walking on its hind legs.
(b) A dead person coming back to life.
(c) A blind man reading a book.
(d) A man wearing a dress.

4. At the end of her research, whose books does the narrator come to?
(a) Her own.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) The living.
(d) Bronte.

5. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and what they are like.
(b) Women and the fiction they write.
(c) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

2. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.

3. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.

4. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?

5. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?

(see the answer key)

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