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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sitting rooms did a middle-class 19th century family have?

2. What age does the narrator say has been the most sex-conscious?

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

4. Dorothy Osborne claims that she would not resort to fiction even if she couldn't ________.

5. What is the name of one of the characters in the man's book that the narrator reads as a follow-up to her studies of books by women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the evolution of women as the narrator takes the reader through it. Include a discussion of women as characters as well as writers.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the characterization of Judith. How is she different from her brother? How are they similar? What does she represent to the narrator?

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