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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of Jane Eyre?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

2. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?
(a) Their bodies.
(b) Their talent.
(c) Their investments.
(d) Their wits.

3. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?
(a) Humor and hard work.
(b) Suffrage.
(c) Reading and criticism.
(d) Persistence and advocacy.

4. What is Carmichael's novel called?
(a) Life's Adventure.
(b) My Story.
(c) Women and Fiction.
(d) A Tale of Two Cities.

5. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Platonic.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Unrealistic.

6. Woolf claims that talent cannot be weighed like _________.
(a) Curds and whey.
(b) Lead.
(c) Cargo.
(d) Sugar and butter.

7. What does the narrator find awkward about Carmichael's writing?
(a) Her story.
(b) Her vocabulary.
(c) Her tone.
(d) Her style.

8. When reading the man's novel, what does the narrator feel overshadows it?
(a) The letter "B."
(b) The letter "I."
(c) Her self-consciousness.
(d) The author's name.

9. What name does the narrator give to the male author she reads after reading so many novels by women?
(a) Mr. A.
(b) Mr. X.
(c) Professor D.
(d) Marc B.

10. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Noble.
(c) Middle.
(d) American.

11. What does the narrator say is natural for the sexes to do?
(a) Co-operate.
(b) Read.
(c) Fight.
(d) Love.

12. The effect of masculinity upon poetry is different from its effect on the _____.
(a) State.
(b) World.
(c) Woman.
(d) Novel.

13. With which side of their brains does the narrator say men are now writing?
(a) The female sight.
(b) The left side.
(c) The male side.
(d) The right side.

14. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?
(a) An audience.
(b) A voice.
(c) Talent.
(d) A name.

15. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?
(a) A lover.
(b) An apartment.
(c) A laboratory.
(d) An office.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."

2. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?

4. What age does the narrator say has been the most sex-conscious?

5. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.

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