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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 poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Frost.
(b) Keats.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Williams.

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

3. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?
(a) Science.
(b) Math.
(c) English.
(d) Latin.

4. What color is "the light of truth?"
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

5. In Chapter 2, what bill does the narrator give the waiter to pay for her meal?
(a) One dollar.
(b) One hundred dollar.
(c) Ten shilling.
(d) Five shilling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?

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

3. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?

4. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?

5. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator find when she returns to reading fiction by a man?

2. 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?

3. What kinds of things does Dorothy write about, in contrast to the Lady and Margaret?

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

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

6. Even though the narrator does not care for Carmichael's writing, what does the narrator say Carmichael has accomplished?

7. What does Woolf encourage women to ignore when setting out to write?

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

9. What is the dinner at Fernham like?

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

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