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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(b) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(c) "Women are equal in all ways to men."
(d) "Most women have no character at all."

2. 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.

3. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A college education.
(b) A pen and paper.
(c) A loving husband.
(d) Some money and a room of her own.

4. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A cat with no tail.
(b) A singing bird.
(c) A kissing couple.
(d) A clumsy beadle.

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

6. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?
(a) Antigone.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Lady MacBeth.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

8. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Flaubert.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Keats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Roaring Twenties.
(c) Golden.
(d) Elizabethan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

2. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?

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

4. The narrator claims that "it is in our idleness, in our ______, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

5. 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?

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