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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 is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?
(a) Oxbridge.
(b) Darby.
(c) Fernham.
(d) Yale.

2. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 5:15 pm.
(b) 8:00 pm.
(c) 7:30 pm.
(d) 6:00 pm.

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

4. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Mary.
(c) Alice.
(d) Virginia.

5. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?
(a) Woman's.
(b) The angry professor.
(c) The narrator's own.
(d) God's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find fascinating about all the books written about women?

2. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?

3. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.

4. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?

5. What is the name of the stage manager who gets Shakespeare's fictional sister pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the beadle upset that Mary is walking on the grass of the men's college?

2. Even though they originally were drawn to poetry, why does the narrator say women wrote novels?

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

4. Where, according to the narrator, did Jane Austen write?

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

6. What options does the narrator give as meanings for the term "women and fiction?"

7. Why is the narrator turned away from the library at Oxbridge?

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

9. In conversing with a friend who works at the women's college, what does the narrator discover about the financial difference between women and men?

10. What does the narrator consider as something that men seek in relationships with women?

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