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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
(a) A loadstone.
(b) An avalanche.
(c) Manure.
(d) A gift from Heaven.

2. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Serving dinner.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Raising children.

3. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Dallas.

4. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A kissing couple.
(b) A cat with no tail.
(c) A singing bird.
(d) A clumsy beadle.

5. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Happy.
(b) Inventive.
(c) Chauvinistic.
(d) Lop-sided.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

2. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?

3. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?

4. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

5. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."

(see the answer key)

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