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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?
(a) Their investments.
(b) Their bodies.
(c) Their talent.
(d) Their wits.

2. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Bats.
(c) Worms.
(d) Owls.

3. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) London.

4. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?
(a) They are both happy.
(b) They work at the same seamstress shop.
(c) They are married to the same man.
(d) They have no children.

5. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Scholars.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?

2. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"

3. In how many years does the narrator expect for writers like Carmichael to become great?

4. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?

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

(see the answer key)

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