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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What design is on the china at the women's college?
(a) None.
(b) A Grecian funeral.
(c) Birds.
(d) Flowers.

2. How does Shakespeare's fictional sister die?
(a) She dies in childbirth.
(b) She kills herself.
(c) She is murdered.
(d) She falls of a horse.

3. What first name does the narrator give herself, even though she says it is unimportant?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Mary.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Alice.

4. What does the narrator suspect that men are concerned with even more than women's inferiority?
(a) Their own superiority.
(b) World events.
(c) Their money.
(d) Women's beauty.

5. Who does the narrator find herself envious of in the museum?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The person reading next to her.
(c) A fly on the wall.
(d) Her friend Mary.

6. What time is dinner being served at Fernham?
(a) 5:15 pm.
(b) 8:00 pm.
(c) 7:30 pm.
(d) 6:00 pm.

7. What does the narrator compare to a fish as she sits thinking by the river bank?
(a) The school.
(b) Herself.
(c) A thought.
(d) Her husband.

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

9. According to the narrator, "Women do not write books about ______."
(a) Men.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Themselves.

10. According to the narrator, men have often compared the idea of women creating anything like fiction or music to what?
(a) A dead person coming back to life.
(b) A man wearing a dress.
(c) A blind man reading a book.
(d) A dog walking on its hind legs.

11. How much income does the narrator receive per year?
(a) 500 pounds.
(b) One thousand pounds.
(c) One thousand dollars.
(d) Ten million pounds.

12. The narrator says that prunes are not _________.
(a) Food.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Tasty.
(d) Fruit.

13. What fictional character does the narrator refer to as examples of women in fiction?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Lady MacBeth.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

15. While reading the newspaper, what is the narrator reminded of?
(a) That England is full of women.
(b) That England is under the rule of a patriarchy.
(c) That she is alone.
(d) That she has not done any work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While thinking about the Professor's work, what does the narrator find herself doing?

3. What emotion sneaks up on the narrator while she is reading the Professor's work?

4. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?

5. What is the name of the friend who the narrator visits with after dinner at Fernham?

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