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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?
(a) A name.
(b) An audience.
(c) A voice.
(d) Talent.

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

3. In talking about Carmichael's novel, what does the narrator find herself slipping "unthinkably" into?
(a) Praise of her own sex.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Respect for a female writer.
(d) Anger.

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

5. How does the narrator address Carmichael?
(a) Rudely.
(b) As if she were in the room with her.
(c) Respectfully.
(d) As if she were dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is natural for the sexes to do?

2. What does the narrator say is the problem with the relationships between women in fiction?

3. What name does the narrator give to the male author she reads after reading so many novels by women?

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

5. Who does the narrator describe as "whimsically despotic?"

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