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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Literature.
(b) Art.
(c) Men.
(d) Themselves.

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

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

4. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.
(a) Richer.
(b) Smarter.
(c) Poorer.
(d) Inferior.

5. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(b) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(c) Women and Men.
(d) Women and Fiction.

6. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"
(a) Poetry.
(b) History.
(c) Romance.
(d) The news.

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

8. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) Herself.
(b) A thought.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The school.

9. 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 husband.
(d) Her friend Mary.

10. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Mary.
(b) Alice.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Virginia.

11. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?
(a) Anonymity.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Humility.

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

13. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?
(a) Middle-class.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Educated.
(d) Working-class.

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

15. 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) Wore hats.
(d) Never published their work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the narrator's income?

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

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

4. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?

5. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

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