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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city does the narrator observe the comings and goings of people on the street from her window?
(a) Columbus.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

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

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

4. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?
(a) An audience.
(b) A voice.
(c) A name.
(d) Talent.

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

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

7. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?
(a) A genius.
(b) A hypocrite.
(c) A writer.
(d) A real person.

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

9. 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) Her happiness.
(d) The reader.

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

11. What phrase in Carmichael's novel startles the narrator and starts her reflection on women as characters?
(a) "The women were angry."
(b) "Chloe liked Olivia."
(c) "I like men."
(d) "Chloe loved Roger."

12. What was the name of Jane Austen's great novel?
(a) Pride and Prejudice.
(b) The Visitor.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Gone With the Wind.

13. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?
(a) October.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) November.

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

15. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Framing a sentence.
(b) Painting.
(c) Inventing a word.
(d) Singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, is it fatal for anyone who writes to do?

2. Why did Behn start writing for money?

3. What things does Carmichael not possess enough of, according to the narrator?

4. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?

5. The narrator claims that the _________ with which men write is incomprehensible to women.

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