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1. Which of the following is not a female writer?
2. A strong opponent of any kind of collectivism, this novelist said, "The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."
3. Today, she is perhaps most famous for her sonnets. Her emotional poem "The Cry of the Children" eventually helped bring about a reform in child labor laws.
4. This 19th century Regency novelist also wrote a satirical "History of England."
5. She had her heroine resist the lure of illicit love with these words: "Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation: they are for moments such as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigor; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"
6. The heroine of one of George Eliot's novels achieved no notoriety, but "the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive." Which of these was not one of the names of that heroine?
7. She wrote a novel containing a character named Milkman.
8. She wrote a novel about the clash between two cultures, the Anglo and the Creole.
9. Her works range the gauntlet from "Loose Women," a collection of sexually charged poetry, to "The House on Mango Street," a short story cycle for children.
10. Her works were concerned with human alienation and the relationship between the individual and God. She was crippled by lupus erythematosus, which eventually proved fatal.
11. She recorded her interesting story in her "Book of _____." She was a house wife who had visions and wanted to become chaste. She was ordered by the archbishop not to teach in his diocese, but she did so anyway.
12. This co-author of a famous children's book murdered her mother and wounded her father.
13. She wrote a poetic allegory of the Fall involving fruit and goblins.
14. This American poet said, "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue / Who says my hand a needle better fits."
15. This novelist's "Agnes Grey," unlike the works of her sisters, was not written in a gothic style.
16. In terms of novels, she was the least prolific of the Bronte sisters. She only wrote one.
17. Over 2,000 years ago, she wrote such poems as "Blame Aphrodite" and "It Was You, Atthis."
18. This popular novelist and author of "Breathing Lessons" was raised as a Quaker.
19. Though a 20th century author, she writes Victorian mysteries. Her series contains at least 19 books.
20. She attended the Amherst academy and wrote a total of 1,775 poems.
21. Her original last name was Godwin, her middle name was Wollstonecraft, and she married a poet.
22. What Jane Austen heroine is described as follows: "Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard."
23. There are some scholars who argue that this Biblical epistle may have been written by a woman.
24. The "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys was a prequel to a book by what female author?
25. Which one of these people is doing her own thing? Which one of these people is not like the others?
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