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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was an heiress.
(b) She was ugly.
(c) She was overbearing.
(d) She was cruel.

2. To what author does the narrator attribute the idea that a great mind is androgynous?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Bronte.
(c) Austen.
(d) Coleridge.

3. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Fernham.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Oxbridge.

4. The narrator says that "the majority of women are neither _______ nor courtesans."
(a) Nobles.
(b) Artists.
(c) Weaklings.
(d) Harlots.

5. What does the narrator use as a less offensive word for "vanities?"
(a) Happinesses.
(b) Similarities.
(c) Peculiarities.
(d) Habits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

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

3. The effect of masculinity upon poetry is different from its effect on the _____.

4. Dorothy Osborne claims that she would not resort to fiction even if she couldn't ________.

5. What, according to the narrator, is it fatal for anyone who writes to do?

(see the answer key)

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