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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 first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Mary.
(d) Alice.

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

3. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A singing bird.
(b) A kissing couple.
(c) A cat with no tail.
(d) A clumsy beadle.

4. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(b) By working hard.
(c) By writing constantly.
(d) By finding happiness.

5. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.
(a) Love.
(b) Myrrh.
(c) History.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the cost of founding the women's college?

2. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?

3. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?

4. What does the narrator say that the women before her were doing instead of earning money?

5. What is one thing the narrator compares the big city she is visiting to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What motives does Woolf reveal for her lecture?

3. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?

4. According to the narrator, what impact does vanity have upon creative works?

5. What are some arguments Woolf gives against the criticisms of her narrative?

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

7. 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?

8. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?

9. Where, according to the narrator, does genius like that of Shakespeare's come from?

10. What change in the nineteenth century legitimized women's writing?

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