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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The beadle.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The priest.

2. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was ugly.
(b) She was cruel.
(c) She was overbearing.
(d) She was an heiress.

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

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

5. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?
(a) Falling asleep.
(b) Drawing a picture of the Professor.
(c) Crying.
(d) Tearing the pages of a book.

6. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) The angry professor.
(b) God's.
(c) The narrator's own.
(d) Woman's.

7. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?
(a) To have lunch.
(b) To the college.
(c) Home.
(d) To her mother's house.

8. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?
(a) Anger.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Anonymity.
(d) Humility.

9. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) A thought.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The school.

10. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
(a) Dreams.
(b) Anger.
(c) Minds.
(d) Hearts.

11. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?
(a) That they are all so good.
(b) That they are all 100 years old.
(c) That there are so many written by men.
(d) That there are so few available.

12. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She is murdered.
(b) She falls of a horse.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She dies in childbirth.

13. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?
(a) In the swimming pool.
(b) In front of the chapel.
(c) In the library.
(d) At home.

14. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A circus.
(b) A retreat.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A machine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?

2. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

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

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

5. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?

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