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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 fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Lady MacBeth.
(d) Antigone.

2. What is the title of the work by the angry Professor von X.?
(a) The Mental, Moral, and Physical Inferiority of the Female Sex.
(b) Women and Men.
(c) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.
(d) Women and Fiction.

3. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Wrote under a man's name.
(b) Burned books in libraries.
(c) Never published their work.
(d) Wore hats.

4. How many children did "Mrs. Seton" have?
(a) 13.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

5. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Pity.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which museum does the narrator visit in Chapter 2?

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

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

5. What is the name of the men's college visited by the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What impact did life experience and/or travel have on some writers, according to the narrator?

3. What does the narrator think that Coleridge meant by a mind that is androgynous?

4. 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?

5. Disappointed with what she has researched so far about women and fiction, what/who does the narrator decide might provide some answers for her upon returning to the British Museum?

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

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

8. What does Mary wonder about the conversation at the Oxbridge luncheon?

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

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

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