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

2. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
(a) That England is full of women.
(b) That she is alone.
(c) That England is under the rule of a patriarchy.
(d) That she has not done any work.

3. What does the narrator compare to the pile of books she gathers to study about women in the museum's library when it is placed on her desk?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) A gift from Heaven.
(c) A loadstone.
(d) Manure.

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

5. The narrator claims that life for both sexes is a "perpetual _______."
(a) Holiday.
(b) Battleground.
(c) Struggle.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

2. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

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

4. According to the narrator, in relation to her husband, what was a woman prior to the women's movement?

5. What design is on the china at the women's college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. As the narrator reaches in her research the fiction of her contemporaries, what progress has been made by women writers?

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

5. How does Woolf preempt the excuses she anticipates hearing from women who are not writing?

6. What are Woolf's closing remarks about Judith?

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

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

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