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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which side of their brains does the narrator say men are now writing?
(a) The female sight.
(b) The male side.
(c) The right side.
(d) The left side.

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

3. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Handsome.
(c) Poor.
(d) Educated.

4. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Women.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Lovers.

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) Judith.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Mary Carmichael.

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

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

8. One objection that Woolf addresses to her narrative is that she is being too _________ in her arguments.
(a) Aggresive.
(b) Materialistic.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Sensitive.

9. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?
(a) An office.
(b) A lover.
(c) A laboratory.
(d) An apartment.

10. At the end of her research, whose books does the narrator come to?
(a) Her own.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) The living.
(d) Bronte.

11. In the case of Charlotte Bronte, what does the narrator claim Bronte's gender interfered with?
(a) The novel's integrity.
(b) Her happiness.
(c) The reader.
(d) The tone of the novel.

12. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?
(a) They have no children.
(b) They are both happy.
(c) They work at the same seamstress shop.
(d) They are married to the same man.

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

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

15. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."
(a) Female characters.
(b) Shakespeare's plays.
(c) Lessons in truth.
(d) Contemporary works of fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?

2. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?

3. What, according to the narrator, has given women wider range in fiction?

4. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. What was Behn's first name?

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