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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?
(a) Humor and hard work.
(b) Persistence and advocacy.
(c) Suffrage.
(d) Reading and criticism.

2. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Inventing a word.
(b) Singing.
(c) Framing a sentence.
(d) Painting.

3. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The fish.
(b) The horse.
(c) The spider.
(d) The wasp.

4. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?
(a) Whether he was in love.
(b) His state of mind when writing.
(c) How old he was.
(d) Who his wife was.

5. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?
(a) Their bodies.
(b) Their wits.
(c) Their talent.
(d) Their investments.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Woolf compare Fascist poetry?

2. John Langdon Davies said that women become unnecessary when children become ________.

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

4. What name does the narrator give to the male author she reads after reading so many novels by women?

5. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

(see the answer key)

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