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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To raise more than two children.
(b) To marry someone handsome.
(c) To have a room of her own.
(d) To live in the city.

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

4. 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.

5. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?
(a) By cleaning the auditorium.
(b) By paying someone to give him a part in a play.
(c) By holding horses at the stage door.
(d) By writing plays for actors.

6. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and men.
(b) Women and fiction.
(c) Women and books.
(d) Women and poetry.

7. 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 dog walking on its hind legs.
(c) A blind man reading a book.
(d) A man wearing a dress.

8. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?
(a) The Smithsonian.
(b) Modern Museum.
(c) The Met.
(d) British Museum.

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

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

11. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By working hard.
(b) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(c) By writing constantly.
(d) By finding happiness.

12. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?
(a) Marry into money.
(b) Attend college.
(c) Get a cat.
(d) Write the plays of Shakespeare.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?

2. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."

3. What color is "the light of emotion?"

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

5. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?

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