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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trait, claims the narrator, has now become self-conscious?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Femininity.
(d) Virility.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Whose letters seem to forebode an age of virility?
(a) Dorothy's.
(b) Sir Walter Raleigh's.
(c) Bronte's.
(d) Her mother's.

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

10. For how much did Bronte sell the copyright of her novels?
(a) 5,000 dollars.
(b) 500 pounds.
(c) Six pence.
(d) 1,500 pounds.

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

12. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.
(a) Poor.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Educated.
(d) Handsome.

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

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

15. What was Behn's first name?
(a) Judith.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Aphra.
(d) Margaret.

Short Answer Questions

1. The effect of masculinity upon poetry is different from its effect on the _____.

2. Who is the author of Jane Eyre?

3. What reaction does the predominance of the perceived "shadow" cause in the narrator as she reads the man's novel in Chapter 6?

4. In what city does the narrator observe the comings and goings of people on the street from her window?

5. As a metaphor for androgyny in writing, what does the narrator say poetry needs?

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