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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) Disgusting.
(b) Elaborate.
(c) Plain.
(d) Indian.

2. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1920.

3. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?
(a) Hugh Smith.
(b) Nick Greene.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Lars Ulster.

4. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.
(a) Richer.
(b) Poorer.
(c) Smarter.
(d) Inferior.

5. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?
(a) An equal.
(b) An employee.
(c) Property.
(d) A queen.

6. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A singing bird.
(b) A cat with no tail.
(c) A clumsy beadle.
(d) A kissing couple.

7. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Inventive.
(b) Chauvinistic.
(c) Lop-sided.
(d) Happy.

8. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?
(a) The person reading next to her.
(b) Her friend Mary.
(c) A fly on the wall.
(d) Her husband.

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

10. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Yale.
(b) Oxbridge.
(c) Darby.
(d) Fernham.

11. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
(a) A dead person coming back to life.
(b) A man wearing a dress.
(c) A blind man reading a book.
(d) A dog walking on its hind legs.

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

13. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Frost.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Williams.
(d) Keats.

14. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Wore hats.
(b) Never published their work.
(c) Wrote under a man's name.
(d) Burned books in libraries.

15. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Pity.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?

2. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."

3. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?

4. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

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

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