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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Work.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Art.
(d) Fun.

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

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

4. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Covered them with blotting paper.
(b) Hid them under a book.
(c) Pinned them to her dress.
(d) Burned them.

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

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

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

8. What kind of writer is Mr. B?
(a) A critic.
(b) A historian.
(c) A novelist.
(d) A theologian.

9. With which side of their brains does the narrator say men are now writing?
(a) The left side.
(b) The male side.
(c) The right side.
(d) The female sight.

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

11. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."
(a) Good.
(b) Useless.
(c) Noble.
(d) Frivolous.

12. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?
(a) Middle.
(b) Noble.
(c) Merchant.
(d) American.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?

2. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

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

4. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.

5. To what does Woolf compare Fascist poetry?

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