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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 year is this story set in?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1965.
2. What color is "the light of truth?"
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.
3. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?
(a) The wasp.
(b) The horse.
(c) The spider.
(d) The fish.
4. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.
(a) History.
(b) Love.
(c) Truth.
(d) Myrrh.
5. What is the source of the narrator's income?
(a) A writing job.
(b) A seamstress job.
(c) An inheritance.
(d) A divorce settlement.
Short Answer Questions
1. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
2. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?
3. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
4. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?
5. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator urge the Carmichael's of the world to ignore?
2. What change in the nineteenth century legitimized women's writing?
3. How does Woolf preempt the excuses she anticipates hearing from women who are not writing?
4. What impact did life experience and/or travel have on some writers, according to the narrator?
5. Why is the narrator turned away from the library at Oxbridge?
6. What comparison does the narrator make regarding the city she visits the museum in?
7. What is interesting about the way the narrator says that she addresses Mary Carmichael?
8. What do Lady Winchilsea and Margaret of Newcastle have in common?
9. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?
10. What does the narrator ask the reader to call her?
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