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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Struggle.
(b) Battleground.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Holiday.

2. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Heroism.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Anger.

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The church.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

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

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

6. What is the source of the narrator's income?
(a) A divorce settlement.
(b) A writing job.
(c) An inheritance.
(d) A seamstress job.

7. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?
(a) Her life.
(b) Her mind.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her talent.

8. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxbridge.
(d) Fernham.

9. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) World events.
(b) Their money.
(c) Women's beauty.
(d) Their own superiority.

10. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"
(a) Women and Poverty.
(b) Women and Men.
(c) Women and Truth.
(d) Women and Art.

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

12. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Rand.
(b) Bronte.
(c) Rossetti.
(d) Dickinson.

13. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
(a) Pulling teeth.
(b) Rewriting history.
(c) Crying wolf.
(d) Challenging authority.

14. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be elected governor.
(b) She could be beaten and locked up.
(c) She could be kicked out of her house.
(d) She could be executed.

15. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?
(a) Art.
(b) Television.
(c) History.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

2. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?

3. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?

4. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?

5. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

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