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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxbridge.
(d) Fernham.

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

4. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.
(a) Truth.
(b) Myrrh.
(c) Love.
(d) History.

5. What year is this story set in?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1860.

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

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

8. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Joyce Brown.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Mary Seton.
(d) Olivia Price.

9. 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.

10. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?
(a) London.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

11. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?
(a) Tearing the pages of a book.
(b) Drawing a picture of the Professor.
(c) Crying.
(d) Falling asleep.

12. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
(a) A gift from Heaven.
(b) Manure.
(c) An avalanche.
(d) A loadstone.

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

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

15. What building is the narrator not allowed into at the men's college?
(a) The dormitory.
(b) The dining hall.
(c) The library.
(d) The church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

2. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."

3. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

4. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

5. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"

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