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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.
(a) Clouded.
(b) Happy.
(c) Perverted.
(d) Incandescent.

3. Which gender does the narrator say is to blame for the current state of fiction?
(a) Men.
(b) Both.
(c) Women.
(d) Neither.

4. Who does the narrator describe as "whimsically despotic?"
(a) Lord Dudley.
(b) Lady Dudley.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Dorothy's father.

5. How many sitting rooms did a middle-class 19th century family have?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation are Chloe and Olivia engaged in?

2. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

3. Who does the narrator give as an example of someone who wrote with both sides of his brain?

4. In what century does the narrator believe women finally became complex characters in fiction?

5. Whose letters seem to forebode an age of virility?

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