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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?
(a) An observer.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A lover.
(d) A writer.

4. What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man?
(a) Pushes him away.
(b) Invigorates him.
(c) Makes him angry.
(d) Turns him on.

5. Compared to Jane Eyre, how long is Carmichael's book?
(a) Only a few pages longer.
(b) The same length.
(c) Twice as long.
(d) About half the length.

6. What, according to the narrator, is it fatal for anyone who writes to do?
(a) Think of their sex.
(b) Get too emotional.
(c) Misspell a word.
(d) Write poetry.

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

8. 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?
(a) Renee.
(b) Judith.
(c) Pheobe.
(d) Max.

9. To what physical trait does the narrator compare these vanities?
(a) A few too many pounds on the hips.
(b) A dark spot at the back of the head.
(c) A wart.
(d) A pimple.

10. What name does the narrator give to the male author she reads after reading so many novels by women?
(a) Professor D.
(b) Marc B.
(c) Mr. A.
(d) Mr. X.

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

12. How does the narrator address Carmichael?
(a) As if she were dead.
(b) Rudely.
(c) Respectfully.
(d) As if she were in the room with her.

13. Why did Behn start writing for money?
(a) Her husband died.
(b) Her husband lost his job.
(c) She was discovered by an agency.
(d) She started a newspaper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?

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

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

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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