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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?
(a) The person reading next to her.
(b) Her friend Mary.
(c) Her husband.
(d) A fly on the wall.

2. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Noble.
(c) Middle.
(d) American.

3. What does the narrator say is natural for the sexes to do?
(a) Read.
(b) Love.
(c) Fight.
(d) Co-operate.

4. As a metaphor for androgyny in writing, what does the narrator say poetry needs?
(a) A father and a mother.
(b) A makeover.
(c) A sister.
(d) A sex change.

5. To what author does the narrator attribute the idea that a great mind is androgynous?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Coleridge.
(d) Austen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

2. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?

3. Which gender does the narrator say is to blame for the current state of fiction?

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

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?

(see the answer key)

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