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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator give as an example of someone who wrote with both sides of his brain?
(a) Coleridge.
(b) Milton.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Shakespeare.

2. To what author does the narrator attribute the idea that a great mind is androgynous?
(a) Austen.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Coleridge.
(d) Bronte.

3. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Painting.
(b) Framing a sentence.
(c) Singing.
(d) Inventing a word.

4. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."
(a) Useless.
(b) Frivolous.
(c) Good.
(d) Noble.

5. For how much did Bronte sell the copyright of her novels?
(a) 1,500 pounds.
(b) 5,000 dollars.
(c) Six pence.
(d) 500 pounds.

6. What does the narrator say is hard to measure?
(a) A man's education.
(b) A woman.
(c) Her own intelligence.
(d) Talent.

7. The narrator claims that a book is built of "_________ built...into arcades or domes."
(a) Sentences.
(b) Feelings.
(c) Stories.
(d) Words.

8. Of what social class was Behn?
(a) Middle-class.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Noble.
(d) Educated.

9. Whose point of view takes over for the narrator at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) An Oxbridge student.
(b) Professor X.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Woolf herself.

10. The narrator contemplates the "unity of the ______" as she observes the rhythm of life on the streets below.
(a) Mind.
(b) Sexes.
(c) World.
(d) Human race.

11. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.
(a) Incandescent.
(b) Perverted.
(c) Clouded.
(d) Happy.

12. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?
(a) A writer.
(b) A genius.
(c) A real person.
(d) A hypocrite.

13. Dorothy Osborne claims that she would not resort to fiction even if she couldn't ________.
(a) Write.
(b) Live.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Eat.

14. What does Woolf list as examples of excuses women will use not to write?
(a) Lack of training.
(b) Lack of money.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Lack of opportunity.

15. How many sitting rooms did a middle-class 19th century family have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is lacking in Carmichael's writing, according to the narrator?

2. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?

3. In the case of Charlotte Bronte, what does the narrator claim Bronte's gender interfered with?

4. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."

5. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?

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