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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To live in the city.
(b) To raise more than two children.
(c) To marry someone handsome.
(d) To have a room of her own.

2. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?
(a) By holding horses at the stage door.
(b) By paying someone to give him a part in a play.
(c) By writing plays for actors.
(d) By cleaning the auditorium.

3. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1920.

4. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Keats.
(b) Frost.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Williams.

5. As a metaphor for androgyny in writing, what does the narrator say poetry needs?
(a) A sister.
(b) A sex change.
(c) A makeover.
(d) A father and a mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

3. Why did Behn start writing for money?

4. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?

5. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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