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

2. What, does the narrator claim, is "worse than being locked out?"
(a) Being locked in.
(b) Being the key.
(c) Being married.
(d) Being poor.

3. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Women are equal in all ways to men."
(b) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(c) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(d) "Most women have no character at all."

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

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?
(a) None.
(b) A Grecian funeral.
(c) Birds.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What year is this story set in?

4. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?

5. Which word best describes the food at the Oxbridge luncheon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the narrator observing at the beginning of Chapter 6 that sets her on a discussion of the flow and unity of the sexes?

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

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

5. What effect does the narrator believe that time will have on the role of women in society.

6. 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?

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

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

9. What does the narrator find awkward about Mary Carmichael's novel?

10. What is the dinner at Fernham like?

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