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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose point of view takes over for the narrator at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Woolf herself.
(b) Professor X.
(c) An Oxbridge student.
(d) Jane Austen.

2. The narrator states that when a book lacks suggestive power, it cannot penetrate _______.
(a) Art.
(b) The world.
(c) A woman's heart.
(d) The mind.

3. What reaction does the predominance of the perceived "shadow" cause in the narrator as she reads the man's novel in Chapter 6?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Pity.
(c) Rage.
(d) Boredom.

4. In what genre were women denied the most expression?
(a) Novels.
(b) Music.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Essays.

5. Why did Behn start writing for money?
(a) Her husband lost his job.
(b) Her husband died.
(c) She started a newspaper.
(d) She was discovered by an agency.

6. What, according to the narrator, were the relationships between those who have sought the company of women NOT?
(a) Unhappy.
(b) Platonic.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Unrealistic.

7. Up until Behn, what did female writers lack?
(a) Talent.
(b) An audience.
(c) A voice.
(d) A name.

8. What does the narrator say is the problem with the relationships between women in fiction?
(a) They do not exist.
(b) They are not realistic.
(c) They are too simple.
(d) They are too complex.

9. What virtues did Behn posses, according to the narrator?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Humor.
(c) Courage.
(d) Vitality.

10. According to the narrator, Elizabethan literature would have been very different if women had begun writing in what century?
(a) 16th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 1st.
(d) 14th.

11. According to the narrator, what will Carmichael "have her work cut out for her" as?
(a) An observer.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A writer.
(d) A lover.

12. What occupation are Chloe and Olivia engaged in?
(a) Building a house.
(b) Sewing uniforms.
(c) Mincing liver.
(d) Curing cancer.

13. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.
(a) Women.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Scholars.
(d) Lovers.

14. The writing of the Duchess compares the lives of women to those of what animals?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Worms.
(c) Bats.
(d) Owls.

15. Who does the narrator describe as "whimsically despotic?"
(a) Lord Dudley.
(b) Lady Dudley.
(c) Dorothy's father.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?

2. The narrator encourages the audience to "earn 500 a year" by using what?

3. What did writing become with the example of Behn?

4. How does the narrator address Carmichael?

5. According to the narrator, what holds a novel together?

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