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

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

3. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To have a room of her own.
(b) To live in the city.
(c) To raise more than two children.
(d) To marry someone handsome.

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

5. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Oxbridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Fernham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

2. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.

3. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

4. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?

5. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two criticisms that Woolf addresses in Chapter 6?

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

3. Even though they originally were drawn to poetry, why does the narrator say women wrote novels?

4. What major differences does the narrator find between women in fiction and women in history?

5. What evidence does the narrator point to that women were not in an unimpeded, incandescent state of mind conducive to writing poetry in the Elizabethan era?

6. What are some arguments Woolf gives against the criticisms of her narrative?

7. As the narrator reaches in her research the fiction of her contemporaries, what progress has been made by women writers?

8. What is the dinner at Fernham like?

9. What does the narrator urge the Carmichael's of the world to ignore?

10. What tone is pervasive throughout the poem by Lady Winchilsea that the narrator recites?

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