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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 characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?
(a) Anger.
(b) Heroism.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Wealth.

2. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1950.

3. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Lars Ulster.
(c) Hugh Smith.
(d) Nick Greene.

4. What year is this story set in?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1900.

5. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A fine wine.
(b) A lamp in the spine.
(c) A happy child.
(d) A good night's rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, which animal lives the longest of all animals?

2. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

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

4. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"

5. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tone is pervasive throughout the poem by Lady Winchilsea that the narrator recites?

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

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

4. What does reading the newspaper in Chapter 2 make the narrator conclude?

5. What, according to the narrator as she reflects on her financial situation, will eat away at the spirit over time?

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

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

8. What does the narrator say about measuring a woman's accomplishments?

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

10. What is interesting about the way the narrator says that she addresses Mary Carmichael?

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