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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator says that "the majority of women are neither _______ nor courtesans."
(a) Harlots.
(b) Weaklings.
(c) Nobles.
(d) Artists.

3. According to the narrator, Elizabethan literature would have been very different if women had begun writing in what century?
(a) 1st.
(b) 19th.
(c) 14th.
(d) 16th.

4. Whose letters seem to forebode an age of virility?
(a) Bronte's.
(b) Sir Walter Raleigh's.
(c) Dorothy's.
(d) Her mother's.

5. About whom does the narrator say "she wrote as a woman, but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman?"
(a) Jane Austen.
(b) Mary Carmichael.
(c) Judith.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

6. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?
(a) Humor and hard work.
(b) Suffrage.
(c) Persistence and advocacy.
(d) Reading and criticism.

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

8. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."
(a) Kids.
(b) Employees.
(c) Harpies.
(d) Blue-stockings.

9. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) December 25, 1954.
(b) April 5, 1776.
(c) October 26, 1928.
(d) May 1, 1908.

10. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?
(a) Essays.
(b) Letters.
(c) Novels.
(d) Poetry.

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

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

13. The effect of masculinity upon poetry is different from its effect on the _____.
(a) State.
(b) World.
(c) Woman.
(d) Novel.

14. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Burned them.
(b) Covered them with blotting paper.
(c) Pinned them to her dress.
(d) Hid them under a book.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In how many years does the narrator expect for writers like Carmichael to become great?

2. What is the name of one of the characters in the man's book that the narrator reads as a follow-up to her studies of books by women?

3. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?

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

5. The narrator contemplates the "unity of the ______" as she observes the rhythm of life on the streets below.

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