A Room of One's Own Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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A Room of One's Own Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being poor.
(b) Being married.
(c) Being locked in.
(d) Being the key.

2. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 8:00 pm.
(b) 6:00 pm.
(c) 7:30 pm.
(d) 5:15 pm.

3. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"
(a) Women and Truth.
(b) Women and Art.
(c) Women and Men.
(d) Women and Poverty.

4. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Lady MacBeth.
(d) All of the above.

5. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and poetry.
(b) Women and men.
(c) Women and fiction.
(d) Women and books.

6. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."
(a) Twentieth.
(b) Eighteenth.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Nineteenth.

7. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"
(a) Romance.
(b) Poetry.
(c) The news.
(d) History.

8. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Struggle.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Battleground.
(d) Holiday.

9. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?
(a) Wife-beating.
(b) Writing about marriage.
(c) Love-making.
(d) Verbal abuse.

10. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Themselves.
(b) Men.
(c) Literature.
(d) Art.

11. How much income does the narrator receive per year?
(a) One thousand dollars.
(b) Ten million pounds.
(c) 500 pounds.
(d) One thousand pounds.

12. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A fine wine.
(b) A happy child.
(c) A good night's rest.
(d) A lamp in the spine.

13. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Fruit.
(b) Tasty.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Food.

14. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?
(a) His state of mind when writing.
(b) How old he was.
(c) Whether he was in love.
(d) Who his wife was.

15. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?
(a) Actress.
(b) Writer.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Seamstress.

Short Answer Questions

1. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?

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

3. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?

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

5. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?

(see the answer keys)

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