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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
(a) Challenging authority.
(b) Pulling teeth.
(c) Rewriting history.
(d) Crying wolf.

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

3. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.
(a) Similarities.
(b) Strife.
(c) Passion.
(d) Differences.

4. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Wore hats.
(b) Burned books in libraries.
(c) Never published their work.
(d) Wrote under a man's name.

5. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Joyce Brown.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Mary Seton.
(d) Olivia Price.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

2. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?

3. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?

4. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.

5. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."

(see the answer key)

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