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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. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) World events.
(b) Women's beauty.
(c) Their money.
(d) Their own superiority.
2. During which month does the narrator visit the two colleges?
(a) January.
(b) October.
(c) April.
(d) May.
3. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Anna.
(b) Mary.
(c) Sue.
(d) Judith.
4. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Art.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Literature.
(d) Men.
5. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?
(a) Mary Seton.
(b) Joyce Brown.
(c) Olivia Price.
(d) Virginia Woolf.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
2. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?
3. What trait does the narrator ascribe to male writers?
4. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
5. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where, according to the narrator, does genius like that of Shakespeare's come from?
2. What are Woolf's closing remarks about Judith?
3. What does reading the newspaper in Chapter 2 make the narrator conclude?
4. Why is the narrator turned away from the library at Oxbridge?
5. Why does the narrator say it seems so sad that Lady WInchilsea's poetry is so bitter?
6. What happens once Mary Beton/the narrator's narrative ends?
7. What tone is pervasive throughout the poem by Lady Winchilsea that the narrator recites?
8. What effect does the narrator believe that time will have on the role of women in society.
9. What evidence does the narrator point to that women were not in an unimpeded, incandescent state of mind conducive to writing poetry in the Elizabethan era?
10. In conversing with a friend who works at the women's college, what does the narrator discover about the financial difference between women and men?
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