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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Burned books in libraries.
(b) Wore hats.
(c) Wrote under a man's name.
(d) Never published their work.

2. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?
(a) Attend college.
(b) Marry into money.
(c) Get a cat.
(d) Write the plays of Shakespeare.

3. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?
(a) To her mother's house.
(b) To the college.
(c) Home.
(d) To have lunch.

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

5. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) World events.
(b) Their money.
(c) Women's beauty.
(d) Their own superiority.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

2. What color is "the light of truth?"

3. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?

4. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?

5. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?

(see the answer key)

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