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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 claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being locked in.
(b) Being the key.
(c) Being poor.
(d) Being married.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(b) Five hundred pounds.
(c) Sixty thousand dollars.
(d) Two million dollars.

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

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

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

12. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) The angry professor.
(b) God's.
(c) The narrator's own.
(d) Woman's.

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

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

15. 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) Rossetti.
(b) Rand.
(c) Dickinson.
(d) Bronte.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

2. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?

3. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

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

5. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?

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