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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To have a room of her own.
(b) To raise more than two children.
(c) To marry someone handsome.
(d) To live in the city.

2. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be beaten and locked up.
(b) She could be executed.
(c) She could be elected governor.
(d) She could be kicked out of her house.

3. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?
(a) In the swimming pool.
(b) In the library.
(c) In front of the chapel.
(d) At home.

4. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She falls of a horse.
(b) She kills herself.
(c) She is murdered.
(d) She dies in childbirth.

5. How much income does the narrator receive per year?
(a) One thousand pounds.
(b) 500 pounds.
(c) Ten million pounds.
(d) One thousand dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does the narrator think best exemplifies a woman's purpose for a man?

2. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."

3. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?

4. What year is this story set in?

5. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two criticisms that Woolf addresses in Chapter 6?

2. Even though the narrator does not care for Carmichael's writing, what does the narrator say Carmichael has accomplished?

3. What is the narrator observing at the beginning of Chapter 6 that sets her on a discussion of the flow and unity of the sexes?

4. What, according to the narrator as she reflects on her financial situation, will eat away at the spirit over time?

5. What does the narrator say women writers will begin addressing, as men have done to them?

6. Why does the narrator say it seems so sad that Lady WInchilsea's poetry is so bitter?

7. What is the narrator surprised to find about the amount of history written that involves women?

8. How does Woolf preempt the excuses she anticipates hearing from women who are not writing?

9. What options does the narrator give as meanings for the term "women and fiction?"

10. What does the narrator find that she feels when reading Professor von X's work about women?

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