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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
(a) Pulling teeth.
(b) Crying wolf.
(c) Challenging authority.
(d) Rewriting history.

2. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
(a) They all claim that women are inferior.
(b) They are all written by women.
(c) Nothing. Each scholar has a differing opinion on them.
(d) They are all written by the same person.

3. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(b) "Most women have no character at all."
(c) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(d) "Women are equal in all ways to men."

4. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A happy child.
(b) A lamp in the spine.
(c) A fine wine.
(d) A good night's rest.

5. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Art.
(c) Fun.
(d) Work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

2. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?

3. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

4. To what physical trait does the narrator compare these vanities?

5. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?

(see the answer key)

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