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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city does the narrator observe the comings and goings of people on the street from her window?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Columbus.
(d) Rome.

2. What occupation are Chloe and Olivia engaged in?
(a) Mincing liver.
(b) Building a house.
(c) Sewing uniforms.
(d) Curing cancer.

3. Which gender does the narrator say is to blame for the current state of fiction?
(a) Neither.
(b) Both.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

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

5. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Platonic.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Unrealistic.

6. What does the narrator say is the problem with the relationships between women in fiction?
(a) They do not exist.
(b) They are too simple.
(c) They are not realistic.
(d) They are too complex.

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

8. What is lacking in Carmichael's writing, according to the narrator?
(a) Satire.
(b) Joy.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Hatred.

9. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?
(a) A name.
(b) A voice.
(c) Talent.
(d) An audience.

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

11. When reading the man's novel, what does the narrator feel overshadows it?
(a) The letter "B."
(b) The author's name.
(c) The letter "I."
(d) Her self-consciousness.

12. John Langdon Davies said that women become unnecessary when children become ________.
(a) Undesirable.
(b) Self-sufficient.
(c) Educated.
(d) Adults.

13. What element of Jane Austen's does Carmichael "break up?"
(a) The story.
(b) The sentence.
(c) The imagination.
(d) The hyperbole.

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

15. According to the narrator, what holds a novel together?
(a) Integrity.
(b) The author.
(c) Love.
(d) The characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does the narrator say "she wrote as a woman, but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman?"

2. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.

3. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?

4. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

5. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?

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