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For the next nine weeks, This Week will test our readers' knowledge of women's history in New Brunswick with questions from Celebrating Achievers: A Quiz on New Brunswick Women's History, published by the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women in 2002.

1) Name the activist writer who wrote on the lives and aspirations of Acadian women and used the pseudonym "Marichette", c. 1895.

2) Grace Annie Lockhart was the first woman in the British Commonwealth to graduate from a university. Name the year and the university.

3) The Women's Enfranchisement Association was one of the first feminist groups in New Brunswick and the only group to work solely on what issue?

4) Name the first Canadian-born novelist whose work was published in Canada.

5) Name the internationally acclaimed opera singer, originally from Shédiac, New Brunswick.

Answers to these five questions can be found on page 20. The full quiz can be found at the Council's website at www.acswcccf.nb.ca.