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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?
(a) Raising children.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Serving dinner.
(d) Sleeping.

2. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The wasp.
(b) The spider.
(c) The fish.
(d) The horse.

3. 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 executed.
(b) She could be beaten and locked up.
(c) She could be elected governor.
(d) She could be kicked out of her house.

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

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

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

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

8. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Inventive.
(b) Lop-sided.
(c) Chauvinistic.
(d) Happy.

9. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?
(a) A garden tool.
(b) A porcelain doll.
(c) A mule.
(d) A mirror.

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

11. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?
(a) Hugh Smith.
(b) Lars Ulster.
(c) Nick Greene.
(d) Lord Byron.

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

13. 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 writing plays for actors.
(d) By holding horses at the stage door.

14. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Pity.

15. What are the beadles doing as the narrator leaves the men's college?
(a) Chasing her out.
(b) Locking the gates.
(c) Cutting the grass.
(d) Serving dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?

2. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?

3. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"

4. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

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

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