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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What things does Carmichael not possess enough of, according to the narrator?
(a) Time.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Money.

4. In how many years does the narrator expect for writers like Carmichael to become great?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 100.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

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

9. What is lacking in Carmichael's writing, according to the narrator?
(a) Satire.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Joy.
(d) Hatred.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Max.
(c) Renee.
(d) Judith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Woolf claims that talent cannot be weighed like _________.

2. What element of Jane Austen's does Carmichael "break up?"

3. About whom does the narrator say "she wrote as a woman, but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman?"

4. The narrator claims that a book is built of "_________ built...into arcades or domes."

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

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