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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class of women in particular does the narrator claim is absent from history?
(a) Working-class.
(b) Educated.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Middle-class.

2. What was the cost of founding the women's college?
(a) Thirty-thousand pounds.
(b) Five hundred pounds.
(c) Two million dollars.
(d) Sixty thousand dollars.

3. According to the narrator, how do we achieve self-confidence?
(a) By finding happiness.
(b) By thinking that other people are inferior.
(c) By writing constantly.
(d) By working hard.

4. What did women writers do before the eighteenth century to disguise their genders?
(a) Wrote under a man's name.
(b) Burned books in libraries.
(c) Wore hats.
(d) Never published their work.

5. What does the narrator say about Shakespeare's mother?
(a) She was cruel.
(b) She was overbearing.
(c) She was ugly.
(d) She was an heiress.

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

7. In what year were women granted the right to vote?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1896.

8. Who is upset that the narrator is walking on the grass at Oxbridge?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The beadle.
(c) The priest.
(d) Her husband.

9. What quote from Pope does the narrator cite regarding women?
(a) "Women are equal in all ways to men."
(b) "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
(c) "Women are essential and hopeful."
(d) "Most women have no character at all."

10. Even up to the beginning of the nineteenth century, according to the narrator, what was "out of the question" for a woman?
(a) To raise more than two children.
(b) To marry someone handsome.
(c) To have a room of her own.
(d) To live in the city.

11. What does the narrator see that makes her laugh when looking out the window at the Oxbridge luncheon?
(a) A kissing couple.
(b) A cat with no tail.
(c) A singing bird.
(d) A clumsy beadle.

12. What meanings does the narrator present as possibilities for discussing the lecture topic?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Women and the fiction that is written about them.
(c) Women and the fiction they write.
(d) Women and what they are like.

13. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be beaten and locked up.
(b) She could be kicked out of her house.
(c) She could be elected governor.
(d) She could be executed.

14. What common factor is there in all of the writings the narrator reads about women?
(a) They are all written by women.
(b) They all claim that women are inferior.
(c) Nothing. Each scholar has a differing opinion on them.
(d) They are all written by the same person.

15. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?
(a) Anger.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Pity.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much income does the narrator receive per year?

2. What color is "the light of truth?"

3. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?

4. What is the name of the women's college visited by the narrator?

5. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?

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