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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is "the light of truth?"
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

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

3. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A singing bird.
(b) A cat with no tail.
(c) A clumsy beadle.
(d) A kissing couple.

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

5. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Sixty thousand dollars.
(b) Two million dollars.
(c) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(d) Five hundred pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the problem with the relationships between women in fiction?

2. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."

3. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?

4. What color is "the light of emotion?"

5. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

(see the answer key)

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