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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In how many years does the narrator expect for writers like Carmichael to become great?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

2. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Sixty thousand dollars.
(b) Five hundred pounds.
(c) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(d) Two million dollars.

3. How much income does the narrator receive per year?
(a) 500 pounds.
(b) One thousand dollars.
(c) One thousand pounds.
(d) Ten million pounds.

4. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Burned them.
(b) Covered them with blotting paper.
(c) Hid them under a book.
(d) Pinned them to her dress.

5. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A pen and paper.
(b) Some money and a room of her own.
(c) A college education.
(d) A loving husband.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."

3. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?

4. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?

5. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?

(see the answer key)

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