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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?
(a) By writing plays for actors.
(b) By paying someone to give him a part in a play.
(c) By cleaning the auditorium.
(d) By holding horses at the stage door.

2. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?
(a) A laboratory.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A lover.
(d) An office.

3. What is the name of one of the characters in the man's book that the narrator reads as a follow-up to her studies of books by women?
(a) Renee.
(b) Pheobe.
(c) Max.
(d) Judith.

4. John Langdon Davies said that women become unnecessary when children become ________.
(a) Educated.
(b) Self-sufficient.
(c) Undesirable.
(d) Adults.

5. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Handsome.
(c) Educated.
(d) Poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.

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

3. Compared to Jane Eyre, how long is Carmichael's book?

4. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?

5. 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?

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