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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator address Carmichael?
(a) Respectfully.
(b) As if she were dead.
(c) As if she were in the room with her.
(d) Rudely.

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

4. What does the narrator say is natural for the sexes to do?
(a) Love.
(b) Read.
(c) Fight.
(d) Co-operate.

5. To what physical trait does the narrator compare these vanities?
(a) A few too many pounds on the hips.
(b) A wart.
(c) A dark spot at the back of the head.
(d) A pimple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation are Chloe and Olivia engaged in?

2. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?

3. What things does Carmichael not possess enough of, according to the narrator?

4. What was Behn's first name?

5. What name does the narrator give to the male author she reads after reading so many novels by women?

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