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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) Williams.
(b) Tennyson.
(c) Frost.
(d) Keats.

2. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) Sonnets.
(b) History.
(c) Life.
(d) Fiction.

3. Where does the narrator spend the hour she has to spare before lunch at Oxbridge?
(a) At home.
(b) In the swimming pool.
(c) In the library.
(d) In front of the chapel.

4. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?
(a) Her talent.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her mind.
(d) Her life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is this story set in?

2. Whose influence is all over the paper, and is "the power and the money and the influence," metaphorically?

3. According to the narrator, how did Shakespeare get his start in the theater?

4. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What change in the nineteenth century legitimized women's writing?

3. What things are important to a great novel, according to the narrator?

4. What motives does Woolf reveal for her lecture?

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

6. What happens once Mary Beton/the narrator's narrative ends?

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

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

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

10. What is the dinner at Fernham like?

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