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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Hid them under a book.
(b) Covered them with blotting paper.
(c) Pinned them to her dress.
(d) Burned them.

3. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
(a) Hearts.
(b) Minds.
(c) Anger.
(d) Dreams.

4. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?
(a) Lady MacBeth.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Antigone.

5. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?
(a) Nick Greene.
(b) Hugh Smith.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Lars Ulster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?

2. How many sitting rooms did a middle-class 19th century family have?

3. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

4. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

5. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?

(see the answer key)

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