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

2. Which word best describes the food served at the Fernham dinner?
(a) Plain.
(b) Inedible.
(c) Expensive.
(d) Exotic.

3. What is the name of Shakespeare's fictional sister?
(a) Judith.
(b) Mary.
(c) Sue.
(d) Anna.

4. What could happen to a woman who refused to marry the man her parents chose for her prior to the 19th century?
(a) She could be kicked out of her house.
(b) She could be elected governor.
(c) She could be executed.
(d) She could be beaten and locked up.

5. What poet does the narrator recite to herself when leaving the luncheon, thinking that men must have hummed at parties before the war?
(a) Keats.
(b) Williams.
(c) Frost.
(d) Tennyson.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city does Shakespeare's fictional sister set out after leaving home?

2. What design is on the china at the women's college?

3. According to the narrator, what animal has the most eyes of all the animals?

4. Where does the narrator go after visiting Oxbridge and Fernham?

5. The narrator finds that the woman "is all but absent from ________."

Short Essay Questions

1. What tone is pervasive throughout the poem by Lady Winchilsea that the narrator recites?

2. What does the narrator consider as something that men seek in relationships with women?

3. What does the narrator urge the Carmichael's of the world to ignore?

4. What comical comparison does the narrator cite as one that men often use for the idea of women writing?

5. Where does the narrator go to continue her research on women and fiction after visiting the two colleges?

6. Why does the narrator have trouble making notes about her research in Chapter 2?

7. According to the narrator, what challenges will Mary Carmichael face as a writer?

8. What change in the nineteenth century legitimized women's writing?

9. What does the narrator find when she returns to reading fiction by a man?

10. What does the narrator ultimately decide to lecture about instead of "women and fiction?"

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