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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator claims that a book is built of "_________ built...into arcades or domes."
(a) Sentences.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Stories.
(d) Words.

2. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?
(a) That they are all so good.
(b) That there are so few available.
(c) That there are so many written by men.
(d) That they are all 100 years old.

3. What element of Jane Austen's does Carmichael "break up?"
(a) The sentence.
(b) The story.
(c) The hyperbole.
(d) The imagination.

4. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."
(a) Argument.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Logic.

5. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Anger.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Pity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much income does the narrator receive per year?

2. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?

3. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

4. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

5. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?

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