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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?
(a) Art.
(b) History.
(c) Television.
(d) Poetry.

3. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Lop-sided.
(b) Happy.
(c) Inventive.
(d) Chauvinistic.

4. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Alice.
(b) Mary.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Joyce.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

4. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

5. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?

(see the answer key)

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