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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?
(a) The Smithsonian.
(b) The Met.
(c) British Museum.
(d) Modern Museum.

8. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?
(a) Get a cat.
(b) Marry into money.
(c) Attend college.
(d) Write the plays of Shakespeare.

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

10. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
(a) Challenging authority.
(b) Crying wolf.
(c) Rewriting history.
(d) Pulling teeth.

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

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

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

14. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?
(a) Women and poetry.
(b) Women and books.
(c) Women and men.
(d) Women and fiction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?

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

3. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?

4. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?

5. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?

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