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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?
(a) Courage.
(b) Vitality.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Humor.

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

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

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

5. What age does the narrator say has been the most sex-conscious?
(a) The Golden Age.
(b) The Romantics.
(c) The Elizabethans.
(d) Her own.

6. How many sitting rooms did a middle-class 19th century family have?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

7. The narrator contemplates the "unity of the ______" as she observes the rhythm of life on the streets below.
(a) Mind.
(b) World.
(c) Human race.
(d) Sexes.

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) Pheobe.
(b) Renee.
(c) Max.
(d) Judith.

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

10. To what does Woolf compare Fascist poetry?
(a) A sewer.
(b) A storm.
(c) A disease.
(d) An abortion.

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

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

13. What reaction does the predominance of the perceived "shadow" cause in the narrator as she reads the man's novel in Chapter 6?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Pity.
(d) Rage.

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

15. What does the narrator find awkward about Carmichael's writing?
(a) Her tone.
(b) Her story.
(c) Her style.
(d) Her vocabulary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?

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

4. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.

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

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