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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose point of view takes over for the narrator at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Woolf herself.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) An Oxbridge student.
(d) Professor X.

2. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Worms.
(c) Bats.
(d) Owls.

3. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Keats.
(d) Rousseau.

4. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
(a) Latin.
(b) English.
(c) Math.
(d) Science.

5. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) Women and what they are like.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Women and the fiction they write.
(d) Women and the fiction that is written about them.

Short Answer Questions

1. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

2. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?

3. What element of Jane Austen's does Carmichael "break up?"

4. What does Woolf list as examples of excuses women will use not to write?

5. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"

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