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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Pity.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Anger.

2. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
(a) A blind man reading a book.
(b) A man wearing a dress.
(c) A dog walking on its hind legs.
(d) A dead person coming back to life.

3. What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man?
(a) Pushes him away.
(b) Makes him angry.
(c) Invigorates him.
(d) Turns him on.

4. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Italy.
(d) Tennessee.

5. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."
(a) Shakespeare's plays.
(b) Contemporary works of fiction.
(c) Lessons in truth.
(d) Female characters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Carmichael's novel called?

3. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?

4. What phrase in Carmichael's novel startles the narrator and starts her reflection on women as characters?

5. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?

(see the answer key)

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