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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tone best describes the poetry of Lady Winchilsea?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Happy.
(c) Indignant.
(d) Melancholy.

2. The narrator claims that the _________ with which men write is incomprehensible to women.
(a) Passion.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Intelligence.

3. The narrator says that "money dignifies what is __________ if unpaid for."
(a) Useless.
(b) Good.
(c) Frivolous.
(d) Noble.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, Austen, Bronte, and others wrote as ________ wrote, not as men did.

2. Male writers often referred to women who wrote as "_________ with an itch for scribbling."

3. John Langdon Davies said that women become unnecessary when children become ________.

4. With which side of their brains does the narrator say men are now writing?

5. To what does the narrator refer as a "complex force?"

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