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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator claims that a book is built of "_________ built...into arcades or domes."
(a) Feelings.
(b) Sentences.
(c) Stories.
(d) Words.

2. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?
(a) Roaring Twenties.
(b) Elizabethan.
(c) Golden.
(d) Enlightenment.

3. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?
(a) The church.
(b) The dining hall.
(c) The library.
(d) The dormitory.

4. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."
(a) Conversation.
(b) Argument.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Logic.

5. For how much did Bronte sell the copyright of her novels?
(a) 500 pounds.
(b) Six pence.
(c) 1,500 pounds.
(d) 5,000 dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the narrator's income?

2. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

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

4. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?

5. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?

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