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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does the narrator claim "almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men."
(a) Shakespeare's plays.
(b) Lessons in truth.
(c) Female characters.
(d) Contemporary works of fiction.

2. The narrator contends that education ought to bring out the ________ between the sexes.
(a) Similarities.
(b) Passion.
(c) Differences.
(d) Strife.

3. What trait, claims the narrator, has now become self-conscious?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Femininity.
(c) Vanity.
(d) Virility.

4. The narrator contemplates the "unity of the ______" as she observes the rhythm of life on the streets below.
(a) World.
(b) Mind.
(c) Sexes.
(d) Human race.

5. What did writing become with the example of Behn?
(a) Popular.
(b) Upbeat.
(c) Practical.
(d) Folly.

6. What age does the narrator say has been the most sex-conscious?
(a) The Elizabethans.
(b) Her own.
(c) The Romantics.
(d) The Golden Age.

7. The narrator says that Dorothy Osborne had a talent for what?
(a) Framing a sentence.
(b) Painting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Inventing a word.

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

9. In what city does the narrator observe the comings and goings of people on the street from her window?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Columbus.
(d) Rome.

10. What does the narrator say that the modern woman writer may use writing as, rather than self-expression?
(a) Fun.
(b) Work.
(c) Art.
(d) Therapy.

11. What is lacking in Carmichael's writing, according to the narrator?
(a) Joy.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Satire.

12. To what does Woolf compare Fascist poetry?
(a) A storm.
(b) A disease.
(c) An abortion.
(d) A sewer.

13. The narrator claims that a book is built of "_________ built...into arcades or domes."
(a) Words.
(b) Sentences.
(c) Stories.
(d) Feelings.

14. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."
(a) Harpies.
(b) Employees.
(c) Blue-stockings.
(d) Kids.

15. What does the narrator say Carmichael is definitely NOT?
(a) A real person.
(b) A hypocrite.
(c) A writer.
(d) A genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Woolf points out that most great male writers were not ______.

2. Woolf claims that talent cannot be weighed like _________.

3. Who does the narrator give as an example of someone who wrote with both sides of his brain?

4. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?

5. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?

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