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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Lady Winchilsea born?
(a) 1661.
(b) 1553.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1800.

2. What did Jane Austen do to hide her manuscripts as she wrote them?
(a) Hid them under a book.
(b) Covered them with blotting paper.
(c) Pinned them to her dress.
(d) Burned them.

3. What does the narrator say is natural for the sexes to do?
(a) Co-operate.
(b) Read.
(c) Love.
(d) Fight.

4. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Singing.
(b) Inventing a word.
(c) Painting.
(d) Framing a sentence.

5. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Platonic.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Sexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.

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. The narrator claims that the _________ with which men write is incomprehensible to women.

4. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?

5. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."

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