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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom does the narrator say "she wrote as a woman, but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman?"
(a) Mary Carmichael.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Judith.

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

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

4. What was Behn's first name?
(a) Aphra.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Judith.
(d) Jenny.

5. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?
(a) November.
(b) October.
(c) July.
(d) May.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?

2. In what year were women granted the right to vote?

3. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"

4. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?

5. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?

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