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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reaction does the predominance of the perceived "shadow" cause in the narrator as she reads the man's novel in Chapter 6?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Pity.
(d) Rage.

2. What three things are brought together by the "stream" of life on the street?
(a) A man, a woman, and a taxicab.
(b) A child, a balloon, and a clown.
(c) A man, a woman, and a child.
(d) A man, a woman, and a bus.

3. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?
(a) 1661.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1553.
(d) 1905.

4. What is Carmichael's novel called?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) Women and Fiction.
(c) My Story.
(d) Life's Adventure.

5. Who does the narrator describe as "whimsically despotic?"
(a) Lord Dudley.
(b) Dorothy's father.
(c) Lady Dudley.
(d) Her husband.

6. What kind of writer is Mr. B?
(a) A critic.
(b) A novelist.
(c) A historian.
(d) A theologian.

7. What trait, claims the narrator, has now become self-conscious?
(a) Femininity.
(b) Virility.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Jealousy.

8. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Fun.
(c) Art.
(d) Work.

9. As a metaphor for androgyny in writing, what does the narrator say poetry needs?
(a) A sister.
(b) A sex change.
(c) A makeover.
(d) A father and a mother.

10. What phrase in Carmichael's novel startles the narrator and starts her reflection on women as characters?
(a) "Chloe liked Olivia."
(b) "I like men."
(c) "Chloe loved Roger."
(d) "The women were angry."

11. In how many years does the narrator expect for writers like Carmichael to become great?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 100.
(d) 50.

12. In what century does the narrator believe women finally became complex characters in fiction?
(a) 20th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 16th.

13. What age does the narrator say has been the most sex-conscious?
(a) The Romantics.
(b) The Golden Age.
(c) The Elizabethans.
(d) Her own.

14. What, according to the narrator, is it fatal for anyone who writes to do?
(a) Misspell a word.
(b) Get too emotional.
(c) Write poetry.
(d) Think of their sex.

15. Woolf claims that talent cannot be weighed like _________.
(a) Curds and whey.
(b) Cargo.
(c) Lead.
(d) Sugar and butter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When reading the man's novel, what does the narrator feel overshadows it?

2. For how much did Bronte sell the copyright of her novels?

3. The narrator says that "the majority of women are neither _______ nor courtesans."

4. One objection that Woolf addresses to her narrative is that she is being too _________ in her arguments.

5. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?

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