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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?
(a) Falling asleep.
(b) Tearing the pages of a book.
(c) Drawing a picture of the Professor.
(d) Crying.

2. 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 dog walking on its hind legs.
(d) A man wearing a dress.

3. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?
(a) A circus.
(b) A machine.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A retreat.

4. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Williams.
(b) Frost.
(c) Keats.
(d) Tennyson.

5. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?
(a) Writer.
(b) Actress.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Seamstress.

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

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

8. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?
(a) Plain.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Exotic.
(d) Inedible.

9. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?
(a) By holding horses at the stage door.
(b) By paying someone to give him a part in a play.
(c) By cleaning the auditorium.
(d) By writing plays for actors.

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

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

12. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She falls of a horse.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She kills herself.
(d) She is murdered.

13. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Dickinson.
(c) Rand.
(d) Rossetti.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?

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

4. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?

5. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?

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