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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?

2. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?

3. Whose letters seem to forebode an age of virility?

4. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?

5. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the shift in point of view that takes place at the end of the novel. Why is it important? How does Woolf address potential critics? What does she reveal as the motive for this lecture?

Essay Topic 2

What major obstacles do women writers face, according to the narrator? Provide and describe three examples from the text. At what time, and why, did these obstacles exist? Were they overcome? How? What obstacles still exist?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the major differences between Oxbridge and Fernham as they relate to the larger theme of the inequality of the sexes during the time period examined by the narrator. What other examples of disparate treatment does the narrator provide? How is inequality evident throughout the time periods readers are exposed to in the novel?

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