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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 female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Rossetti.
(b) Bronte.
(c) Rand.
(d) Dickinson.

2. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A mule.
(b) A garden tool.
(c) A porcelain doll.
(d) A mirror.

3. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?
(a) Her friend Mary.
(b) Her husband.
(c) A fly on the wall.
(d) The person reading next to her.

4. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?
(a) The horse.
(b) The anteater.
(c) The elephant.
(d) The fish.

5. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(b) "Women are equal in all ways to men."
(c) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(d) "Most women have no character at all."

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?

2. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?

3. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."

4. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?

5. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What change in the nineteenth century legitimized women's writing?

2. Why does the narrator say it seems so sad that Lady WInchilsea's poetry is so bitter?

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

4. What does the narrator tell her audience is the reason that they can see the treatment of women through history as so ridiculous?

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

6. How does Woolf preempt the excuses she anticipates hearing from women who are not writing?

7. What things are important to a great novel, according to the narrator?

8. What is the narrator observing at the beginning of Chapter 6 that sets her on a discussion of the flow and unity of the sexes?

9. What does the narrator find that she feels when reading Professor von X's work about women?

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

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