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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did writing become with the example of Behn?
(a) Popular.
(b) Practical.
(c) Folly.
(d) Upbeat.

2. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.
(a) Handsome.
(b) Educated.
(c) Poor.
(d) Wealthy.

3. According to the narrator, what holds a novel together?
(a) The author.
(b) Love.
(c) The characters.
(d) Integrity.

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

5. What does Woolf list as examples of excuses women will use not to write?
(a) Lack of opportunity.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Lack of training.
(d) Lack of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Jane Eyre?

2. What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man?

3. What is the date at the beginning of Chapter 6?

4. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?

5. Dorothy Osborne claims that she would not resort to fiction even if she couldn't ________.

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