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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 truth?"
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) White.

2. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A fine wine.
(b) A lamp in the spine.
(c) A good night's rest.
(d) A happy child.

3. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
(a) English.
(b) Latin.
(c) Math.
(d) Science.

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

5. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Food.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Tasty.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What design is on the china at the women's college?
(a) None.
(b) Birds.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A Grecian funeral.

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

13. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
(a) They are all written by the same person.
(b) Nothing. Each scholar has a differing opinion on them.
(c) They all claim that women are inferior.
(d) They are all written by women.

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

15. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Judith.
(b) Mary.
(c) Anna.
(d) Sue.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?

2. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?

3. How much income does the narrator receive per year?

4. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?

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

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