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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the source of the narrator's income?
(a) An inheritance.
(b) A divorce settlement.
(c) A seamstress job.
(d) A writing job.

2. What does a woman need in order to write fiction, according to Woolf?
(a) A college education.
(b) A pen and paper.
(c) Some money and a room of her own.
(d) A loving husband.

3. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?
(a) Drawing a picture of the Professor.
(b) Tearing the pages of a book.
(c) Crying.
(d) Falling asleep.

4. After failing to find answers in other areas, what does the narrator look into upon her return to the British Museum?
(a) Art.
(b) Television.
(c) History.
(d) Poetry.

5. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."
(a) Sonnets.
(b) Life.
(c) Fiction.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator's research, what practice is common in the treatment of women throughout history?

2. What subject does the narrator's friend teach at the women's college?

3. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?

4. The narrator claims to be seeking "the essential oil of _________" in the museum.

5. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?

(see the answer key)

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