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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Almost twenty.
(c) Not yet seventeen.
(d) Fifteen.

2. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?
(a) Suffrage.
(b) Reading and criticism.
(c) Persistence and advocacy.
(d) Humor and hard work.

3. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.
(a) Differences.
(b) Passion.
(c) Strife.
(d) Similarities.

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

5. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) Their money.
(b) Women's beauty.
(c) World events.
(d) Their own superiority.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

2. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?

3. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?

4. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

5. In what city does the narrator observe the comings and goings of people on the street from her window?

(see the answer key)

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