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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many sitting rooms did a middle-class 19th century family have?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

2. Who does the narrator give as an example of someone who wrote with both sides of his brain?
(a) Milton.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Coleridge.

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

4. In what month was Mary Carmichael's book published?
(a) October.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) November.

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

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

7. Woolf claims that talent cannot be weighed like _________.
(a) Lead.
(b) Cargo.
(c) Curds and whey.
(d) Sugar and butter.

8. What was the "genre" of Dorothy Osborne's writing?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Essays.
(c) Novels.
(d) Letters.

9. In what century does the narrator believe women finally became complex characters in fiction?
(a) 19th.
(b) 16th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 20th.

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

11. From what social class is Lady Winchilsea?
(a) Merchant.
(b) American.
(c) Middle.
(d) Noble.

12. According to the narrator, Lady Winchilsea's mind has not become _________.
(a) Clouded.
(b) Happy.
(c) Perverted.
(d) Incandescent.

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

14. What things does Carmichael not possess enough of, according to the narrator?
(a) Time.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Money.
(d) Idleness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the narrator, is it fatal for anyone who writes to do?

2. In what city does the narrator observe the comings and goings of people on the street from her window?

3. What was Behn's first name?

4. What tone best describes the poetry of Lady Winchilsea?

5. How does the narrator address Carmichael?

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