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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(b) Women and Fiction.
(c) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(d) Women and Men.

2. What color is "the light of emotion?"
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

3. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?
(a) Working-class.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Middle-class.
(d) Educated.

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

5. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?
(a) One hundred dollar.
(b) Ten shilling.
(c) One dollar.
(d) Five shilling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is "the light of truth?"

2. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

3. What year is this story set in?

4. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

5. In what year were women granted the right to vote?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator ultimately decide to lecture about instead of "women and fiction?"

2. What does the phrase "Chloe liked Olivia" set the narrator on a discussion about?

3. What does the narrator find when she returns to reading fiction by a man?

4. According to the narrator, what challenges will Mary Carmichael face as a writer?

5. What does the narrator think that Coleridge meant by a mind that is androgynous?

6. What options does the narrator give as meanings for the term "women and fiction?"

7. What does the narrator ask the reader to call her?

8. Where, according to the narrator, does genius like that of Shakespeare's come from?

9. What is the source and amount of the narrator's income?

10. Explain the comparison between women and mirrors presented by the narrator.

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