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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 era does the narrator pay particular attention to when looking into women in history?
(a) Enlightenment.
(b) Elizabethan.
(c) Roaring Twenties.
(d) Golden.

2. The narrator claims that "nothing is known about women before the _________ century."
(a) Twentieth.
(b) Eighteenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Seventh.

3. 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 own superiority.
(d) Their money.

4. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Battleground.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Holiday.
(d) Struggle.

5. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Two million dollars.
(b) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(c) Five hundred pounds.
(d) Sixty thousand dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the fictional tale of Shakespeare's sister, how old is she when she leaves home?

2. What topic has the narrator asked to lecture about?

3. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."

4. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the narrator, what challenges will Mary Carmichael face as a writer?

2. Where, according to the narrator, did Jane Austen write?

3. What major differences does the narrator find between women in fiction and women in history?

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

5. What does the narrator tell her audience is the reason that they can see the treatment of women through history as so ridiculous?

6. When Mary comes upon the chapel at Oxbridge, what do her thoughts instantly go to?

7. 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?

8. What does the narrator urge the Carmichael's of the world to ignore?

9. What does the narrator ask the reader to call her?

10. What effect does the narrator believe that time will have on the role of women in society.

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