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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom does the narrator say "she wrote as a woman, but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman?"
(a) Mary Carmichael.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Judith.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

2. What kind of writer is Mr. B?
(a) A historian.
(b) A critic.
(c) A theologian.
(d) A novelist.

3. What does the narrator use as a less offensive word for "vanities?"
(a) Habits.
(b) Happinesses.
(c) Peculiarities.
(d) Similarities.

4. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.
(a) Similarities.
(b) Passion.
(c) Strife.
(d) Differences.

5. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?
(a) Humor.
(b) Vitality.
(c) Courage.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Carmichael's novel, what do Chloe and Olivia share?

2. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?

3. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.

4. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?

5. What reaction does the predominance of the perceived "shadow" cause in the narrator as she reads the man's novel in Chapter 6?

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