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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Art.
(c) Work.
(d) Fun.

2. In terms of fiction, what things did society deem more important than women's feelings?
(a) Love scenes.
(b) Social causes.
(c) Battle scenes.
(d) Men's thoughts.

3. What does the narrator say the sight of a woman "creating in a different medium than his own" does to a man?
(a) Makes him angry.
(b) Pushes him away.
(c) Invigorates him.
(d) Turns him on.

4. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Human beings.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Scholars.
(d) Women.

5. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.
(a) Perverted.
(b) Clouded.
(c) Happy.
(d) Incandescent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Behn start writing for money?

2. To what author does the narrator attribute the idea that a great mind is androgynous?

3. According to the narrator, Elizabethan literature would have been very different if women had begun writing in what century?

4. Compared to Jane Eyre, how long is Carmichael's book?

5. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?

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