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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?
(a) Owls.
(b) Worms.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Bats.

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

4. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?
(a) Their bodies.
(b) Their wits.
(c) Their talent.
(d) Their investments.

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

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

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

8. In terms of fiction, what things did society deem more important than women's feelings?
(a) Battle scenes.
(b) Social causes.
(c) Men's thoughts.
(d) Love scenes.

9. 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) Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Judith.

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

11. Who is the author of Jane Eyre?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

12. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"
(a) Truth.
(b) Reason.
(c) Men.
(d) Femininity.

13. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.
(a) Strife.
(b) Differences.
(c) Similarities.
(d) Passion.

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

15. What did writing become with the example of Behn?
(a) Popular.
(b) Upbeat.
(c) Folly.
(d) Practical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What age does the narrator say has been the most sex-conscious?

2. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?

3. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.

4. Of what social class was Behn?

5. John Langdon Davies said that women become unnecessary when children become ________.

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