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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

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. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Marriage.
(b) Holiday.
(c) Battleground.
(d) Struggle.

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) The church.
(d) Her husband.

4. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
(a) The elephant.
(b) The anteater.
(c) The horse.
(d) The fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

2. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.

3. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?

4. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?

5. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

(see the answer key)

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