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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The beadle.
(c) The priest.
(d) Her mother.

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

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

4. 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 beaten and locked up.
(d) She could be elected governor.

5. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Anna.
(b) Mary.
(c) Judith.
(d) Sue.

6. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was cruel.
(b) She was an heiress.
(c) She was ugly.
(d) She was overbearing.

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

8. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
(a) That she is alone.
(b) That she has not done any work.
(c) That England is full of women.
(d) That England is under the rule of a patriarchy.

9. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?
(a) History.
(b) Art.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Television.

10. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Life.
(d) History.

11. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 5:15 pm.
(b) 7:30 pm.
(c) 6:00 pm.
(d) 8:00 pm.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator wants to know, among other things, why woman are __________ than/to men.

2. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?

3. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?

4. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."

5. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

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