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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator claims that the _________ with which men write is incomprehensible to women.
(a) Emotion.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Anger.
(d) Passion.

2. To what author does the narrator attribute the idea that a great mind is androgynous?
(a) Austen.
(b) Coleridge.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Bronte.

3. To what does Woolf compare Fascist poetry?
(a) A disease.
(b) An abortion.
(c) A storm.
(d) A sewer.

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

5. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?
(a) A lover.
(b) A writer.
(c) A teacher.
(d) An observer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Woolf claims that talent cannot be weighed like _________.

2. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?

3. The narrator states that when a book lacks suggestive power, it cannot penetrate _______.

4. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?

5. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.

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