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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) Art.
(b) Work.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Fun.

2. What tone best describes the poetry of Lady Winchilsea?
(a) Indignant.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Happy.

3. Whose point of view takes over for the narrator at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Jane Austen.
(b) Professor X.
(c) An Oxbridge student.
(d) Woolf herself.

4. When reading the man's novel, what does the narrator feel overshadows it?
(a) The author's name.
(b) The letter "I."
(c) The letter "B."
(d) Her self-consciousness.

5. Dorothy Osborne claims that she would not resort to fiction even if she couldn't ________.
(a) Live.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Write.
(d) Eat.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. About whom does the narrator say "she wrote as a woman, but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman?"

4. What element of Jane Austen's does Carmichael "break up?"

5. In what century does the narrator believe women finally became complex characters in fiction?

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