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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which gender does the narrator say is to blame for the current state of fiction?
(a) Both.
(b) Neither.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

2. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Inventing a word.
(b) Painting.
(c) Framing a sentence.
(d) Singing.

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

4. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Yale.
(b) Darby.
(c) Oxbridge.
(d) Fernham.

5. What is the source of the narrator's income?
(a) A divorce settlement.
(b) A seamstress job.
(c) An inheritance.
(d) A writing job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose point of view takes over for the narrator at the end of Chapter 6?

2. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?

3. What age does the narrator say has been the most sex-conscious?

4. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.

5. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

(see the answer key)

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