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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(c) Women and the fiction they write.
(d) Women and what they are like.

2. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?
(a) By paying someone to give him a part in a play.
(b) By writing plays for actors.
(c) By holding horses at the stage door.
(d) By cleaning the auditorium.

3. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) Italy.

4. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?
(a) A writer.
(b) A genius.
(c) A hypocrite.
(d) A real person.

5. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Anger.
(c) Heroism.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. When reading the man's novel, what does the narrator feel overshadows it?

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

3. The narrator states that when a book lacks suggestive power, it cannot penetrate _______.

4. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

5. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?

(see the answer key)

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