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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Worms.
(c) Owls.
(d) Bats.

2. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?
(a) A writer.
(b) An observer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A lover.

3. At the end of her research, whose books does the narrator come to?
(a) Her own.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Bronte.
(d) The living.

4. According to the narrator, Elizabethan literature would have been very different if women had begun writing in what century?
(a) 1st.
(b) 16th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 14th.

5. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) December 25, 1954.
(b) April 5, 1776.
(c) May 1, 1908.
(d) October 26, 1928.

Short Answer Questions

1. One objection that Woolf addresses to her narrative is that she is being too _________ in her arguments.

2. Why did Behn start writing for money?

3. What phrase in Carmichael's novel startles the narrator and starts her reflection on women as characters?

4. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?

5. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?

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