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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is "the light of emotion?"
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

2. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) History.
(b) Sonnets.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Life.

3. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 6:00 pm.
(b) 5:15 pm.
(c) 8:00 pm.
(d) 7:30 pm.

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

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

6. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A loving husband.
(b) Some money and a room of her own.
(c) A pen and paper.
(d) A college education.

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

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

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

10. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
(a) That England is under the rule of a patriarchy.
(b) That England is full of women.
(c) That she is alone.
(d) That she has not done any work.

11. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Mary.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Alice.
(d) Joyce.

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

13. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Almost twenty.
(d) Not yet seventeen.

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

15. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?
(a) Actress.
(b) Seamstress.
(c) Writer.
(d) Waitress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?

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

3. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

4. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?

5. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?

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