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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who, in the centuries before this story, had ownership of a woman's earnings?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The church.
(d) Her father.

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

5. In the age of Shakespeare, what does the narrator claim it would have been impossible for women to do?
(a) Get a cat.
(b) Marry into money.
(c) Write the plays of Shakespeare.
(d) Attend college.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?

2. What heading does the narrator place on the page of notes she is taking while researching "women and fiction?"

3. Where does the narrator go after leaving the museum?

4. What does the narrator wonder about Shakespeare as she looks for answers in his tragedies?

5. The narrator finds that the woman "pervades _________ from cover to cover;"

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some arguments Woolf gives against the criticisms of her narrative?

2. What is the dinner at Fernham like?

3. What is the narrator observing at the beginning of Chapter 6 that sets her on a discussion of the flow and unity of the sexes?

4. As the narrator reaches in her research the fiction of her contemporaries, what progress has been made by women writers?

5. What are the two criticisms that Woolf addresses in Chapter 6?

6. Describe the fictional "Judith."

7. According to the narrator, what impact does vanity have upon creative works?

8. Why does the narrator say it seems so sad that Lady WInchilsea's poetry is so bitter?

9. What kinds of things does Dorothy write about, in contrast to the Lady and Margaret?

10. Why is the beadle upset that Mary is walking on the grass of the men's college?

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