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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what does a woman with creative talent inevitably lose?
(a) Her mind.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her talent.
(d) Her life.

2. Woolf claims that "the truer the facts the better the _______________."
(a) Logic.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Argument.
(d) Conversation.

3. What does the narrator compare to the feeling of having had a good meal and good conversation?
(a) A good night's rest.
(b) A fine wine.
(c) A happy child.
(d) A lamp in the spine.

4. What writer does the narrator list as one whose self-consciousness the reader is aware of?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Keats.
(d) All of the above.

5. What female poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that women must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Rand.
(c) Rossetti.
(d) Bronte.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.

2. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?

3. What design is on the china at the women's college?

4. What characteristic does the narrator find is often assigned to fictional women?

5. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?

(see the answer key)

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