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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator give as an example of someone who wrote with both sides of his brain?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Milton.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Coleridge.

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

3. What is lacking in Carmichael's writing, according to the narrator?
(a) Satire.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Joy.
(d) Hatred.

4. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."
(a) Blue-stockings.
(b) Kids.
(c) Harpies.
(d) Employees.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What three things are brought together by the "stream" of life on the street?

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

4. What is Carmichael's novel called?

5. What, according to the narrator, is it fatal for anyone who writes to do?

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