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

2. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The priest.
(d) The beadle.

3. To what does the narrator compare compiling information about the day-to-day life of a woman?
(a) Crying wolf.
(b) Challenging authority.
(c) Rewriting history.
(d) Pulling teeth.

4. What occupation does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out to do?
(a) Writer.
(b) Actress.
(c) Seamstress.
(d) Waitress.

5. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To marry someone handsome.
(b) To raise more than two children.
(c) To have a room of her own.
(d) To live in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?

2. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?

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

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

5. What color is "the light of emotion?"

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What motives does Woolf reveal for her lecture?

3. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?

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

5. What is the source and amount of the narrator's income?

6. What does the narrator ask the reader to call her?

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

8. What comical comparison does the narrator cite as one that men often use for the idea of women writing?

9. Why does the narrator say it seems so sad that Lady WInchilsea's poetry is so bitter?

10. 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?

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