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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?
(a) Paris.
(b) Italy.
(c) London.
(d) Tennessee.

2. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"
(a) Men.
(b) Truth.
(c) Reason.
(d) Femininity.

3. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be beaten and locked up.
(b) She could be kicked out of her house.
(c) She could be executed.
(d) She could be elected governor.

4. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.
(a) Clouded.
(b) Incandescent.
(c) Happy.
(d) Perverted.

5. Who does the narrator describe as "whimsically despotic?"
(a) Dorothy's father.
(b) Lady Dudley.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Lord Dudley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?

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

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

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

5. As a metaphor for androgyny in writing, what does the narrator say poetry needs?

(see the answer key)

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