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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By writing constantly.
(b) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(c) By working hard.
(d) By finding happiness.

2. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To marry someone handsome.
(b) To have a room of her own.
(c) To live in the city.
(d) To raise more than two children.

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

4. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.
(a) Richer.
(b) Smarter.
(c) Poorer.
(d) Inferior.

5. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
(a) English.
(b) Latin.
(c) Science.
(d) Math.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tone best describes the poetry of Lady Winchilsea?

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

3. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."

4. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?

5. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?

(see the answer key)

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