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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(b) Women and Men.
(c) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(d) Women and Fiction.

2. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Joyce Brown.
(b) Mary Seton.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Olivia Price.

3. Why did Behn start writing for money?
(a) Her husband lost his job.
(b) Her husband died.
(c) She was discovered by an agency.
(d) She started a newspaper.

4. What name does the narrator give to the male author she reads after reading so many novels by women?
(a) Mr. X.
(b) Marc B.
(c) Professor D.
(d) Mr. A.

5. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."
(a) Female characters.
(b) Shakespeare's plays.
(c) Contemporary works of fiction.
(d) Lessons in truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.

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

3. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

4. What does the narrator say is hard to measure?

5. What three things are brought together by the "stream" of life on the street?

(see the answer key)

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