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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Themselves.
(b) Men.
(c) Literature.
(d) Art.

3. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) Women's beauty.
(b) Their money.
(c) World events.
(d) Their own superiority.

4. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Wrote under a man's name.
(b) Wore hats.
(c) Burned books in libraries.
(d) Never published their work.

5. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?
(a) Art.
(b) Poetry.
(c) History.
(d) Television.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?

2. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.

3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?

4. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

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

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