Some notable women writers

Which of the following writers were mother and daughter?

• Frances Burney and Jane Austen

• Mary Shelley and Anne Brontë

• Jane Austen and George Eliot

• Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Jane Eyre was written by

• Anne Brontë

• Emily Brontë

• Charlotte Brontë

• Frances Burney

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

• is a fairy tale for children.

• was written in the 18th century.

• hasn't been adapted into a motion picture.

• is considered the first science fiction novel.

Simone de Beauvoir is considered

• the founder of the feminist movement.

• the most important philosopher of the 19th century.

• a mediocre novelist.

• a social researcher very ahead of her time.

Women writers' social commitment

• only appeared in the 20th century.

• means they engaged in social and political movements.

• consists in showing the different social classes in their books.

• means they loved being their time's celebrities.

Being writers, those women

• were educated and they used their knowledge to fight for women's rights.

• made a very goog living by writing.

• were highly respected by their contemporaries.

• had no problems to publish their books.

To express their ideas

• they only used their own experiences in writing.

• they used a variety of genres for their persuasive writing.

• these women were very careful not to upset their readers.

• they didn't use poetry, just essays and novels.

Their vision of future

• implied idealism and innovation.

• was very optimistic.

• tended toward utopia.

• didn't have much hope for change.

Which of these authors  has NOT won the Nobel Prize for  Literature (yet)?

• Gabriela Mistral

• Toni Morrison

• Zadie Smith

• Wislawa Szymborska

Which novel of  Jane Austen has been audiovisually adapted most times?

• Emma

• Persuasion

• Sense and Sensibility

• Pride and Prejudice