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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?
(a) Whether he was in love.
(b) Who his wife was.
(c) How old he was.
(d) His state of mind when writing.

5. 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) Write the plays of Shakespeare.
(d) Attend college.

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

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

8. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
(a) A blind man reading a book.
(b) A man wearing a dress.
(c) A dead person coming back to life.
(d) A dog walking on its hind legs.

9. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 13.
(d) 1.

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

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

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

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

14. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?
(a) Not yet seventeen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Almost twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

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

3. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?

4. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

5. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

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