4. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The horse.
(b) The wasp.
(c) The fish.
(d) The spider.

5. To the narrator, excluding women from history makes it seem "unreal" and "________."
(a) Lop-sided.
(b) Inventive.
(c) Happy.
(d) Chauvinistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?

2. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?

3. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?

4. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?

5. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the source and amount of the narrator's income?

3. What does the narrator ultimately decide to lecture about instead of "women and fiction?"

4. As the narrator reaches in her research the fiction of her contemporaries, what progress has been made by women writers?

5. 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?

6. Why is the beadle upset that Mary is walking on the grass of the men's college?

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

8. What is served for lunch at the men's college?

9. Why is the narrator turned away from the library at Oxbridge?

10. According to the books the narrator finds about the position of women in history, what treatment of women was typical in England's history?

(see the answer keys)

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