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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Golden.
(c) Roaring Twenties.
(d) Elizabethan.

2. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) Pride and Prejudice.
(c) Gone With the Wind.
(d) The Visitor.

3. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A black hole.
(b) A circus.
(c) A machine.
(d) A retreat.

4. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She falls of a horse.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She is murdered.

5. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Platonic.
(d) Unhappy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?

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

3. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

4. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

5. The narrator claims that the _________ with which men write is incomprehensible to women.

(see the answer key)

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